Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 23—GRAND FORKS — The Federal Aviation Administration has recently encouraged operators and training programs to incorporate a ...

Instrument takeoffs into low clouds are inherently risky due to the rapid shift to instrument conditions, high pilot workload, and susceptibility to somatogravic illusions, which can lead to spatial ...

The fatal crash of an Australian army NH Industries MRH90 was due to the flightcrew’s spatial disorientation, leading to controlled flight into the sea. The 28 July 2023 incident involving the ...

Spatial disorientation (Spatial D) is a dangerous condition in aviation where pilots lose awareness of their aircraft's attitude, often leading to loss of control, especially when flying visual flight ...

The sky is no longer the limit—but taking flight is dangerous. In leaving the Earth's surface, we lose many of the cues we need to orient ourselves, and that spatial disorientation can be deadly.

In Part 1, we discussed the circumstances surrounding the December 2019 crash of a Piper Cheyenne in foggy conditions at Lafayette, Louisiana. The 51-year-old accident pilot reported 1,530 total ...