Americans' Confidence in Air Travel Safety Dips Slightly After Washington Plane Crash: AP-NORC Poll Americans' confidence in air travel and the federal agencies tasked with maintaining air safety has slipped a little from...
Delta Jet Flips Upside Down on a Snowy Toronto Runway and All 80 Aboard Survive A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and...
Trump Begins Firings of FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Just Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy...
Recent Aviation Disasters Cause Fears About the Safety of Flying The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.
Crews Return to the Potomac River to Recover Wreckage from DC Midair Collision Crews were on the scene on the Potomac River on Monday to retrieve the submerged wreckage of an airliner and an Army...
US and Philippine Fighter Aircraft Jointly Patrol Disputed Shoal Region Guarded by China U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft staged a joint patrol and training over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese...
A Deadly Flight Out of Wichita Has One of America's Most Historic Aviation Cities Reeling During World War II, Boeing made more than 1,700 bombers in Wichita.
FAA Indefinitely Closes Routes near Reagan National to Most Helicopter Traffic After Deadly Crash The Federal Aviation Administration is significantly restricting helicopter traffic in the immediate vicinity of Washington...
Pilots Have Long Worried about DC's Complex Airspace Contributing to a Catastrophe The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead...
Air Force Deportation Flight Skirts Mexican Airspace to Guatemala as Military's Border Role Grows A U.S. Air Force jet with 80 migrants that left Texas for Guatemala charted a path around Mexico because it couldn't fly over...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
