A plane landed at Colorado's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport without a pilot's help on Saturday in what appears to be the first real-world use of new safety technology. According to Garmin, their ...

Skyryse expects SkyOS' autoland feature to support use cases such as pilot incapacitation, spatial disorientation, severe weather encounters, and other emergency situations. Development and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small plane landed itself safely at a Colorado airport in what marked the first-ever use of Garmin's Autoland system in an ...

A twin engine turboprop that lost its pilots to a sudden in flight emergency has become the first aircraft in history to complete a full emergency landing with no human input on the controls. The ...

General aviation is statistically less safe than commercial aviation because regulators hold airlines to a much higher standard. However, innovations are slowly being adopted to close the gap and make ...

Skyryse plans to introduce a universal emergency autoland system for both fixed-wing and rotorcraft, activated by a single tap on a touchscreen in cases of pilot incapacitation. This autoland is a ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved cutting-edge technology developed by Olathe-based Garmin that can automatically land a small airplane in an emergency. Piper Aircraft announced Monday ...

On Oct. 31, Garmin rolled out its Garmin Autoland avionics system for general aviation aircraft to permit autonomous touch downs in emergencies. After Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...