Alaska Airlines Opts for iPads Instead of Paper Flight Manuals. May 30, 2011 — -- Alaska Airlines Goes Digital In today's TechBytes, iPads take flight. Alaska Airlines now has permission from the ...

Loss-of-control accidents remain the leading cause of aviation fatalities, prompting the FAA to emphasize increased hand-flying practice for pilots. The FAA's Safety Alert (SAFO 17007) recommends ...

American Airlines said Wednesday it will become the first major airline to give its flight attendants tablet computers to replace traditional heavy paper manuals, and it expects the change to save it ...

The US Federal Aviation Administration is set to urge ICAO to address pilot training deficiencies that may leave some of the world’s airline pilots unprepared to manually fly aircraft when automated ...

In the over 1,600-page flight manual of Boeing's 737 Max 8 planes, the aircraft's new MCAS computer system, now at the centre of the investigations into two deadly crashes, is mentioned only once by ...