The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has taken another confusing twist, after authorities backtracked on when a crucial communications system on the aircraft was switched off. The ...

Malaysian authorities have rekindled confusion over the sequence of events on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, with apparently differing accounts of the status of the ACARS ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A communications system in the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner could have been switched off before or after the last verbal contact with the flight deck, which likely came ...

The state-of-the art vessel tasked with finding missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously switched off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) for more than three days, sending some ...

Russian airlines are preparing to restore access to the digital datalink Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). The system is used to transmit short text messages between ...

Not having to wait on NextGen implementation to move forward is a huge advantage, and removes an excuse that airlines have for not implementing live flight tracking. Two and a half years before MH370 ...

[Avionics Today March 19, 2014] Malaysia Airlines Prime Minister Najib Razak clarified a statement released over the weekend regarding the disablement of the missing flight MH370 jet’s Aircraft ...

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Wizz Air, a Budapest, Hungary-based operator of more than 100 Airbus A320s, has become Europe’s first airline to start using SITAONAIR’s aircraft communication, addressing and reporting system (ACARS) ...

Messages sent by a maintenance alert system cannot provide the "physical location" of a missing plane but indicate whether there are system or engine failures, a U.S. expert said Thursday. The Wall ...