The findings revealed this week showed a significant difference between the altitude indicated by the radar altimeter and the barometric altimeter on the aircraft. Marie Moler, a lead investigator, ...

Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...

The head of the Dutch Safety Authority has announced that last week’s Turkish Airlines plane crash in Amsterdam may have been caused by a faulty altimeter. Dutch authorities have made an announcement ...

French investigation authority BEA believes the prevalence of ILS approaches has obscured an underlying vulnerability of aircraft to the risk of terrain collision arising from incorrect altimeter ...

The US aviation industry is pressing the Federal Aviation Administration to extend until mid-2032 the deadline for upgrading 58,600 radio altimeters across 41,000 aircraft to withstand interference ...