Master rigger Mike Parnell walks up to a rack and picks up what looks like a giant rubber band. In reality, it is a 10-ft-long, 2-in.-wide lifting sling made of thin, yellow nylon webbing. Parnell ...

The failure of a parachute to deploy during a dramatic unpiloted test of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule's emergency abort system Monday was traced to a pin that was not properly connected to a ...

FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) yesterday for immediate inspections of Beech 1900, 1900C and 1900D to find mis-rigged elevator control systems. Ground tests last week of rigging ...