Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

Non-U.S. accidents dropped; U.S.-registered business jet fatalities rose slightly ...

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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.

The Federal Aviation Administration says pilot disorientation causes 5% to 10% of all general aviation accidents, and there could be new technology to help make flying safer. "Spatial disorientation ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Nearly two years after a plane crash claimed the lives of two Cambria County men, federal officials say they have concluded their investigation into what caused the deadly ...

Pilots can experience dangerous visual illusions and spatial disorientation even in Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC), particularly during approaches, stemming from conflicting sensory inputs.

A 2021 plane crash that killed seven leaders of Remnant Fellowship, a Nashville, Tennessee-area megachurch, was due to pilot error, a report from the National Transportation Safety Board found. Nearly ...