The Navy Test Pilot Who Shot Down His Own Fighter Jet Not every military test pilot can set records like Chuck Yeager, but what happened to Tom Attridge on Sept. 21, 1956, was...
St. Louis-Area Boeing Workers Authorize Strike if Contract Talks Fail The St. Louis workers make defense aircraft for Boeing at sites in St. Louis County, St. Charles and Mascoutah. The products...
China Sends Scores of Planes Across Central Line in Taiwan Strait China sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait that unofficially divides...
Japan Grounds Military Training Aircraft After Crash Leaves 2 Crew Members Missing Japan grounded most of its aging military training aircraft on Wednesday after one of the planes crashed minutes after take...
A Lack of Oxygen Likely Incapacitated the Pilot of a Private Jet that Crashed in Virginia in 2023 A lack of oxygen that incapacitated the pilot and three passengers is likely what caused a private jet to become unresponsive...
Russia Is Responsible for Downing MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, Global Aviation Agency's Council Finds The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization found Russia responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines...
Feds Vow to Overhaul US Air Traffic Control System While Fixing Problems at Troubled Newark Airport A deadly midair collision in January between a military helicopter and a commercial airliner, several additional crashes and...
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it...
Thousands of Machinists Union Members Go On Strike at Jet Engine Maker Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney makes engines for commercial and military jets, including the GTF line for Airbus commercial jets and the...
FAA Finds Safety Concerns at Las Vegas Airport in Review Spurred by Midair Collision in Washington A federal review of helicopter safety around some of the busiest U.S. airports, prompted by the deadly midair collision in...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.