An underwater locator beacon on a flight recorder transmits a 37.5 kHz acoustic pulse for at least 30 days once water activates it. That's the certified minimum under the traditional standard. The hardware is rated to operate at depths of…

Five structural differences decide whether an accident investigation's findings ever reach a courtroom. The most consequential is the legal shield: some countries bar entire reports from civil suits, others protect only underlying evidence, and some publish a probable cause that…

Yes, with an important caveat: the clean post-grounding safety record is concentrated in the MAX 8 and MAX 9. No fatal crash or hull loss has been recorded on any Boeing 737 MAX since late 2020. The MAX 7 received…

The 53% versus 18% split is real but measures the share of fatal accidents landing in each age cohort, not how often those aircraft crash per departure. Young jets fly most of the trips, so they dominate raw accident counts.…