The Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) has significantly reduced controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents, establishing itself as a vital safety technology in aviation. TAWS operates ...

The N.T.S.B. has long advised installing ground warning systems on helicopters, but the aircraft carrying Mr. Bryant did not have the voluntary system. By Chris Hamby and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs In ...

The helicopter that crashed, killing NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and eight others in California was not equipped with safety technology called a Helicopter Terrain Awareness Warning System, known as ...

TAWS inhibit switch involved in the 2015 Ketchikan accident. Credit: NTSB On June 25, 2015, a Promech Air de Havilland DHC-3, registration N270PA, collided with terrain about 24 nm east-northeast of ...

The Garmin GPSMap 296 is an advanced, portable GPS navigator designed to offer affordable, near-TAWS (Terrain Awareness and Warning System) safety benefits for light aircraft, for which full legal ...

The U.S. Marine Corps will field the ATAWS on its F/A-18 Legacy Hornet fleet starting in early 2026. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division has announced on Nov. 19, 2025, that the U.S. Marine ...

SEATTLE – The British Aerospace 146 crash in Medellin, Colombia reminds us all of the hazards of mountainous terrain. Electrical flaws were reported on the aircraft Monday night, and it crashed ...

LOS ANGELES — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn’t have a recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to land but it’s not clear it would have averted the crash that killed ...

After a Calabasas helicopter crash in January 2020 killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others, focus quickly turned to technology that warns pilots when they’re too close to the ground or other ...