How transponders, pressure altitude, and controllers spot aircraft flying at the wrong altitude.

A 1995 MD-83 incident, where the aircraft struck trees during an approach, underscored the dangers of incorrect altimeter settings and rapidly falling pressure, prompting the airline to abandon the ...

Norwegian investigators have disclosed that they are probing a low approach involving a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-100 at the northern Svolvaer airport last month. The aircraft dipped 700ft below the ...

An instrument approach is officially unusable if a certified and authorized altimeter setting (local or from a nearby airport if permitted) is unavailable. In a dire Part 91 emergency, pilots *could* ...

Investigators have determined that the crew of an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 did not set the correct destination pressure reference for the altimeter before the twinjet dipped far below the ...

Altimeter settings, though critical for IFR pilots to establish accurate height (especially in high terrain), are theoretical values derived from measured station pressure, not direct measurements, ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...

LYON—French air accident investigation bureau BEA has released its final report on a ground proximity event involving an AirHub Airlines-operated Airbus A320 at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in May ...