Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OSHKOSH – Emergency landing is now as easy as the touch of a button. Cirrus Aircraft has added yet another safety feature to its ...

When you’re flying in a small plane, the possibility of the pilot becoming incapacitated is usually filed in the very-unlikely-to-happen category. But it happens, and with no other pilot on board, ...

A twin-engine turboprop aircraft landed itself at a Colorado airport on Saturday after a sudden cabin failure — a first-of-its-kind emergency touchdown carried out entirely by an automated flight ...

Huge props to these two helicopter test pilots, who have white-knuckled it through one of the most harrowing experiences in rotorcraft flight – an unpowered autorotation emergency landing – allowing ...

Forty years ago, Alan Klapmeier, the co-founder of aircraft manufacturer Cirrus, was involved in a midair collision. With his plane missing part of a wing, Klapmeier was (just barely) able to land, ...

Cirrus Aircraft unveiled its new Safe Return Emergency Autoland system at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh July 21. The system allows passengers to land the plane in case of pilot incapacitation with a push of ...