An apparent technical glitch sparked a false hijacking alarm today when a Singapore Airlines flight transmitted a transponder code indicating a possible hostile takeover of the aircraft. Singapore ...

As investigators search for clues to what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the answer to one question may prove key: Why did the transponder in the Boeing 777-200ER stop transmitting ...

My friend and colleague Gregg Easterbrook has an op-ed in the NYT today saying that one big lesson of the 9/11 attacks, which should be re-learned because of the Malaysia 370 mystery, is that pilots ...

Air traffic controllers want to work traffic on concrete runways and assign transponder codes--not strut on fashion runways and adhere to dress codes. But dress code they must, under work rules ...

A Gulfstream V erroneously squawked that a hijacking was under way as it crossed through Canadian airspace one late October afternoon, leading airspace def More than 30 flights into Denmark’s main ...