In the aftermath of high profile aviation stories, I've been working overtime to reassure my colleagues and readers that ...

The Black Hawk pilots who collided with an American Airlines plane last month may not have heard vital information given by ...

The Black Hawk helicopter may have been flying with “bad data” and didn’t hear all air traffic control instructions before ...

The Black Hawk that collided with an American Airlines jet in January may not have had accurate altitude readings, ...

“It is often different from what they see on their primary altimeters.” Barometric altitude that pilots use while flying was not recorded on the flight data recorder, or FDR, also known as the ...

but represents the local altitude change). The only guarantee on this field is that it will never be reset and is consistent within a flight. The recommended value for this field is the uncorrected ...

If you have been at that altitude before with no problem, you can probably return to that altitude without problems as long as you are properly acclimatized. The concentration of oxygen at sea level ...

The NTSB reported that missed air traffic messages and incorrect altitude data may have caused the Black Hawk ...