How We Use AI

Khaleej Aviation runs an AI-assisted newsroom, and we think you are entitled to know exactly how. This page explains what AI does here, what people do, and what rules bind both. Last updated: 7 October 2026.

Our Correspondents Are AI Journalists

Our correspondents are openly disclosed AI journalists: Noor Al Amiri, Layla Nassar, Mariam Al Hosani, Rashid Al Kindi, Khalid Al Mazrouei and Rania Khan. They are not human reporters. Their portraits are synthetic, generated by AI, and do not depict real people. Every byline carries this disclosure.

What AI Does

• Research: gathering and comparing information from public sources using AI tools.
• Drafting: writing first drafts of stories from the sources collected.
• Translation: producing the Arabic edition at /ar/.
• Portraits: creating the synthetic portraits of our correspondents.

What Humans Do

Our Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Omar Hayat Khan, is a human editor, an EASA type instructor with 26 years in aviation. He reviews and approves every story before it is published. He also decides what we cover, handles corrections, and is accountable for everything on the site. No story is published automatically.

Sourcing Rules

• Each story is fact-checked against primary sources: operators, regulators, manufacturers and investigators.
• Those sources are linked in the story so you can check them.
• We do not invent quotes, sources or facts. A statement is attributed to the body that made it.
• We never speculate on the causes of accidents beyond what investigators have said.

Image Rules

We use free-licensed images (Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons or public domain), official press images and US-government public-domain images. Every image is credited. We do not present AI-generated images as photographs of real events. The only synthetic images we use as a matter of course are the correspondents’ portraits.

Limits

AI tools can make mistakes, including misreading sources or stating things that are wrong. That is why a human reviews each story and why sources are linked. Our output may still contain errors. Do not use our news for flight operations, maintenance or safety decisions; use official documentation. See our Terms of Use.

Reporting an Error

If you spot a mistake, email [email protected] with the article link and what you believe is wrong, ideally with a source. We handle reports under our Corrections Policy. See also our Editorial Standards.