If you’re looking for a staunch advocate of attitude flying, you’ll find none better or more evangelical than Wolfgang Langewiesche in his classic Stick and Rudder. His sermonizing on the importance ...

The data recorder from the Lion Air jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people aboard, shows that the plane’s airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The “black box” data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows the airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after ...

(October 2011) Air France 447 went down in the mid-Atlantic in 2009 because all three of its pitot tubes iced up. Well, not exactly. It wasn’t the loss of functioning pitot tubes that doomed the ...

The airspeed indicator on the Lion Air flight JT 610 that crashed in Indonesia last week failed on each of the plane's four final flights, according to data recovered from the aircraft's black box ...

My colleague Andy Pasztor, a master at crash-investigation reporting who covers the National Transportation Safety Board, has news this afternoon that problems with airspeed indicators may have led to ...

The deadly crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 aircraft in Indonesia is one of the worst aviation catastrophes of 2018. The WSJ looks at some big questions that have emerged as investigators try to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A Boeing 737 MAX plane that crashed in Indonesia had a ...