World | FOCUS Dec 21, 2018

London's Gatwick Airport shutdown highlights the havoc drones can cause

The disruption of hundreds of flights at London's Gatwick Airport after it was buzzed by miniature drones shows just how easy it can be to disrupt advanced aviation networks with simple, inexpensive devices. Airports have been raided by drones before. Dubai International was briefly closed ...

Asia Pacific Dec 1, 2018

Lion Air crash sheds light on the dark side of cockpit automation

Focus As Boeing Co. was developing its latest version of the 737 airliner, it discovered the design was slightly more prone to loss of control. So the company added a computer-driven safety feature — one that is now a focus of the investigation into a ...