It's frightening if not ironic to think an invention from the early 1700s could have triggered a chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 447. Pitot tubes that today measure airspeed were ...

Information has surfacedregarding a problem with the sensors used to provide air-speed indications tothe crew of doomed Air France Flight 447. The devices, called pitot tubes, havea history of not ...

The saga over Airbus A330/A340 pitot tube continues. This time, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive related to Goodrich tubes. Operators have been ...

Preflight inspections have to cover a lot of bases, but there is one class of accidents that illustrate how some pilots apparently dont conduct even the most superficial of walk-arounds. A study of ...