Daytime VFR flight legality depends on FAR 91.205, requiring specific functioning instruments (air speed indicator, altimeter, compass, etc.). A helpful mnemonic is "A TOMATO FLAMES" to remember them.

A Southwest flight bound for Dallas Love Field was forced to make an unscheduled landing on Monday night after the cockpit’s instruments indicated that one of the plane’s flaps maybe not have fully ...

Well, that’s not supposed to happen. A Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Los Angeles diverted to Salt Lake City on Saturday after the pilots noticed a potential issue with one of their ...

A small plane crashed a year ago near Grand Meadow, killing the pilot, because it didn’t have the proper flight instruments for flying in that day’s poor weather, a federal agency says. The pilot’s ...

DETROIT (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that the pilot of a small plane that crashed in western Michigan in poor weather, killing himself and a passenger, did not hold an ...

The Cessna 172 has been the undisputed champion of flight training and personal aviation. It’s the airplane that taught the ...

There were no survivors after a small plane crashed in a field in southeast Sedgwick County in October 2013 near 95th Street South and Webb Road. (Oct. 18, 2013) Mike Hutmacher File photo A plane ...