According to Federal Aviation Administration reports, Boston's Logan International Airport had more pilot deviations and control tower errors than at any other similarly busy airport in the past year and a half.
'Mr. Baby,' a Cornish rex cat, suffered a scratched nose, broken nails and "emotional trauma" when an Atlanta baggage handler accidentally placed him on a baggage conveyor belt instead of carrying him to the main terminal.
The number of air ambulance crashes has reached record levels. Since the year 2000 there have been 84 air ambulance crashes resulting in 60 deaths. This represents more than 10% of the total U.S. air ambulance fleet.
A negligence lawsuit has been filed in the state district court on behalf of Wendy Bonham from Salt Lake City.
Grand juries in the state of California have indicted 40 pilots for fraud finding that they falsified medical records to hide such disabilities as schizophrenia and heart problems.
The family members of two United States Navy seamen have filed a lawsuit against United Technologies Corporation, its subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft and conglomerate General Electric Company.
Bombardier Learjet was cleared from a $200 million dollar lawsuit filed by pro golfer, Payne Stewart's family.
The United States Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a ban on noisy jets over the skies of Naples.
The Federal Aviation Administration says that it will propose a $1.5 million dollar fine for Independence Air due to missed inspections.
Describing their behavior as outrageous and horrendous, Florida Judge David Young convicted two former America West pilots for operating a commercial jet under the influence of alcohol.
Airport officials at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) are seeking new liability protection from the Department of Homeland Security.
The city of Baltimore has grounded its four police helicopters for testing after a fatal crash in California.
In what is being called a miracle, 309 people escaped with minor injuries after Air France Flight 358 overshot the runway and crashed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it would soon begin cracking down on illegal charter operations. This action could affect a large number of AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) members.
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a warning notice to air ambulance companies in an effort to stop a surge in rescue helicopter crashes.
Peter Mueller, a fourteen-year-old aviation camp student, and his 21-year-old flight instructor, Brent Bauman, were both killed when their plane crashed into Lake Maxinkuckee near Culver Academies on Wednesday.
The Transportation Security Administration is considering several proposed changes to passenger screening procedures including lifting the ban on knives and razorblades aboard aircraft.
Hundreds of passengers found themselves stranded on a Detroit Metropolitan Airport runway when Northwest Airlines Flight 210 blew four tires during touchdown.
The widows of two army airmen, who were killed in a plane crash in August, 2003, are suing DynCorp International, a long time maintenance contractor for the United States military.
Beginning on October 18 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin allowing some corporate aircraft to fly in and out of Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
U.S. District Judge, Carol Bagley Amon, dismissed the lawsuit filed against JetBlue Airways for the unauthorized use of personal passenger information.
In a preliminary, partial settlement, employees and retirees of United Airlines will receive $5.25 million for the failure of an employee stock-ownership plan.
The city of Chicago faces a $33,000 Federal Aviation Administration fine for demolition of Meigs Field.
Struggling with high fuel costs and large amounts of debt, Delta Airlines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. have filed for bankruptcy protection.
Advocates are preparing to file a stay in federal court to halt the expansion of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and preserve a historic landmark.
Jeffrey Borer, owner of XtraJet and Arvel Jett Reeves, owner of Executive Aviation Logistics, were indicted on federal charges of secretly recording entertainer Michael Jackson two years ago.
Southwest Airlines, American Airlines and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport continue to dispute a 26-year-old federal law known as the Wright Amendment, which limits Southwest's operations out of Love Field in Dallas.
Relatives of more than 100 people killed in a plane crash in Indonesia last month are preparing to sue Boeing, the plane's manufacturer.
Daniel Andrew Wolcott of Buford, Ga. has been charged with stealing a $7 million Cessna Citation VII from a St. Augustine, Fla. airport.
Claiming they were led to believe that their employer, MidAtlantic Airways, was a separate, lower paying company, more than 230 pilots are suing US Airways, America West, Republic Airlines and their union for $400 million.
Allan Gropper, an attorney for Northwest Airlines, has told a U.S. bankruptcy judge that the airline has reached a possible settlement agreement in their lawsuit against American Express Company.
A former Alaska Airlines supervisor has settled a lawsuit against the carrier for wrongful termination.
Officials at the Port of Oakland are expecting many lawsuits to be filed as a result of a developer's plans to build 100 homes in the flight path of planes traveling in and out of Oakland International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration has absolved a Chandler, Arizona man after mistakenly accusing him of violating the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone.
Judge Prudence Carter Beatty, a bankruptcy judge, ruled that Delta Airlines Inc. pilots must follow procedures and file a lawsuit if they want to challenge the company's decision to cut pension payments.
Missouri is expected to soon become the eighth state to be made exempt from the Wright Amendment.
Claiming their constitutional rights to picket had been violated, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 33 has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC).
A judge has ordered Continental Airlines to pay a Manhattan attorney $3,110 after he and his 13-year-old daughter were bumped from a flight.
A judge has denied a request by the Metropolitan Airports Commission and Northwest Airlines to dismiss a noise lawsuit filed by three cities.
Family members of a woman and her 16-month-old daughter killed in a seaplane crash near Miami Beach have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ocean Airways.
The families of Jesse Rhodes and Richard Peter Cesarz, pilots killed in the 2004 Pinnacle Airlines crash, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Florida.
Four people were killed this morning at McClellan-Palomar airport in Carlsbad, California when their Cessna 560 attempted to land.
Frank H. Jellinek Jr., 60, a well-known New Hampshire business executive, along with three other people, was killed yesterday in a plane crash at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California.
John Krogh and his assistant, Wendy Bonham, the only remaining survivors of the October 19, 2004 Kirksville, MO plane crash that killed 13 people, say they are not surprised at the recently released NTSB ruling.
Four people were killed last night when their twin-engine Cessna slammed into a construction storage lot in Wheeling, Ill., about a half-mile southwest of Palwaukee Municipal Airport.
Armed federal agents raided both the Anchorage and Palmer aircraft hangars of Security Aviation Inc. yesterday.
Six people were killed on Friday when their twin-engine plane crashed near the Myrtle Beach airport.
Three people were killed Wednesday when two planes collided in mid-air over El Cajon, California, in San Diego County.
Two people were killed on Sunday morning when their plane crashed into a home in Roseville, Calif.
Fifty-four residents lost power on Saturday when a single-engine jet crashed into a Lake County field in Fruitland Park, Fla.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Two boys were arrested on suspicion of burglary after crash-landing a stolen plane.
Most of a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that planes manufactured by The Boeing Co. contained "bogus parts" has been dismissed by a federal court.
Two children returning home from a family reunion are the only survivors of a horrific plane crash that killed their parents.
A private, twin-engine Cessna crashed early Thursday morning while attempting to land at Melbourne International Airport.
In an attempt to void a $130 million debt, Northwest Airlines has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Airport Commission (MAC).
The military's largest aircraft, a C-5 cargo plane, crashed just short of the Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. early Monday morning.
A Cessna that crashed into Lake Erie off Pelee Island, Canada two years ago, killing all 10 passengers, was overloaded and icy, the Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
Passengers of a military cargo jet that crashed after its takeoff from Dover Air Force Base say that the aircraft's engines lost power.
Officials have confirmed that the body of 84-year-old Scott Crossfield, a well-known test pilot, was discovered in the wreckage of a plane crash near Ranger, Ga.
Five people were killed, including two accomplished pilots, in a midair collision over the Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, about 20 miles northeast of Anchorage.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has instructed a lower level federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by U.S. Airways pilots against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
On May 1st, the White House announced that the GPS (Global Positioning System), which uses satellite transmissions to pinpoint the location of vehicles and people, would become twice as accurate for private citizens.
The parents of a 22-year-old woman who died in a skydiving plane that crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in Sullivan, Mo., on Saturday have filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking unspecified damages.
British authorities arrested 24 suspects in connection with a plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto a London flight. The suspects were taken into custody just before their “dry run" could be executed.
On Sunday, a commuter jet that tried to take off from a short runway crashed into a nearby field, catching fire. A co-pilot was the only survivor and is currently hospitalized in critical condition.
Tower tapes confirm that the pilot and a controller planned for the plane to take off from the correct runway.
The crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington, Kentucky, last Sunday has some in the legal community saying it is nearly certain that Delta, the airline’s parent company, will be sued.
The federal government will pay $3.4 million to the parents of a 20-year-old Spokane, Washington, man, two years after a plane crash took his life, along with the life of another student pilot.
Three American medical volunteers are dead after a plane crash near Tijuana.
An internal airline memo has revealed that Comair Airlines was utilizing inaccurate diagrams of Lexington, Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport at the time Flight 5191 crashed, killing 49 of the 50 people on board.
The two largest U.S. airlines say that pending court approval, they will have to pay nothing after settling their part with most of the plaintiffs in a multimillion dollar class-action lawsuit.
The family of a Canadian woman who perished in last month's crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Kentucky is filing a lawsuit against the airline.
The National Transportation Safety Board says neither of the pilots in command of Comair Flight 5191 was found to have traces of illegal drugs or alcohol in his blood at the time the plane crashed into a Lexington, Kentucky, field last month.
Restrictions on certain liquids, gels, aerosols, and other toiletries that passengers may bring onto airplanes are slowly being eased.
All passengers and crew are safe after a lone hijacker aboard a jetliner bound from Albania to Istanbul surrendered today.
Two American pilots are being questioned in the investigation of a Brazilian airliner crash that killed 155 people.
The latest reports out of Manhattan say an aircraft, either a small plane or a helicopter, has crashed into a residential building on the Upper East Side in New York.
One of two survivors of a skydiving plane crash that killed six people in eastern Missouri is filing suit against the company that made the plane's engine.
U.S. fighter jets blanketed American cities within 40 minutes after a small plane crashed into an Upper Manhattan apartment building Wednesday.
A lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed in a plane crash in Jacksonville, Florida, has been settled for $2.5 million.
Delta Airlines subsidiary Comair has filed suit against Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, and the Federal Aviation Administration after the crash in August that killed 49 people.
The National Transportation Safety Board has cited a light wind as a contributing factor in the crash of a small plane carrying Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle last month.
A United States law firm has filed a suit alleging pilot negligence and defectively designed equipment contributed to the September crash of a Gol Airlines flight in the jungles of Brazil.
30 members of the Revolutionary Guards, an elite unit of the Iranian military, were killed along with six crew members when their plane crashed at an airport in Tehran Monday.
Low traces of radiation have been found on two British Airways jetliners, and a third is being tested following the suspicious death of a former Russian spy.
The former president and former chief inspector of Express.Net have filed a whistleblower suit containing more than 20 allegations of safety and TSA violations.
The National Transportation Safety Board says pilots should be required to follow specific procedures to ensure their aircraft is departing from the correct runway.
The search continues for passengers who boarded the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 on Jan. 1, headed for Manado on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. After two distress signals were issued from the plane, communications were lost and the plane went missing.
Dick Ebersol and his wife, actress Susan St. James, say passengers paying a premium for charter air travel may unknowingly be traveling on a flight without direct oversight by the government.
In the federal trial over lawsuits resulting from the February 2000 multi-plane crash that killed Chicago radio host Bob Collins, recent testimony focused on what Collins may have seen just prior to the accident.
Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines Inc., claims negligence on the part of the Federal Aviation Administration played a part in the 2006 crash of Flight 5191 shortly after takeoff.
The federal agency charged with investigating air disasters says an October plane crash near Statesville that killed two people was probably due to pilot error.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of two of the victims of a deadly plane crash in Kentucky has been settled.
A federal lawsuit has been filed over the death of a man whose body was discovered in a restroom aboard an American Airlines plane.
Comair has named Lexington's Blue Grass International Airport as a third-party defendant in a lawsuit in Fayette Circuit Court.
An emergency medical helicopter service has filed suit against New York State Police and the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department over a territory dispute.
The National Transportation Safety Board says pilot error caused the April 20, 2006, crash that killed five Indiana University graduate students.
A jetliner departing from Chicago's O'Hare Airport took a chunk out of the tail of another large jet while preparing to take off for San Francisco on June 27 during a severe thunderstorm.
Lawyers for both the airline and victims' families say opinions of the National Transportation Safety Board have historically not been admissible as evidence in lawsuits.
One of the largest commercial airplane manufacturers in the world is being sued by the estates of nine Indonesian victims killed in the Mandala Airlines crash.
The sole survivor of last year's deadly Comair crash in Kentucky and the widow of flight captain Jeffrey Clay have filed suits against the Federal Aviation Administration, Blue Grass Airport, and a runway chart-making company.
The recent plane crash at Phuket International Airport has resulted in a lawsuit being filed by a Chicago-based firm.
AirTran Airways Flight 47, carrying 143 people and bound for Atlanta, returned to Philadelphia International Airport last Saturday with a cracked windshield and a slightly injured co-pilot.
An accident that claimed the lives of small aircraft pilot and radio host Bob Collins and two others has been ruled mostly the fault of an air traffic controller and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Rep. William Pascrell criticized the head of the Transportation Security Administration during a hearing Tuesday for being unfamiliar with several cases in which TSA employees suffered retaliatory treatment after reporting airport security problems.
Speaking Wednesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, U.S. Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley said he will take action to extend federal whistleblower protection to the nation's airport checkpoint and baggage screeners.
An AtlasJet Airlines MD 83 jetliner has gone down in the mountains of southwest Turkey, killing everyone aboard.
The widow of a man who died with three others in a 2006 airplane crash in Stafford County, Virginia, has settled her lawsuit against the estate of the pilot for $1 million.
A liability lawsuit filed against Comair over a 2006 plane crash in Lexington, Kentucky, that killed 49 people will head to trial four months earlier than planned.
One pilot has died and another remains hospitalized in the wake of a midair crash involving two F-15C Eagle fighter jets participating in a routine training mission over the Gulf of Mexico.
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into a February 13 incident in which a Go! Airlines flight overshot its intended destination by over 15 miles and the pilots were unresponsive to attempts to contact them.
A twin-prop passenger plane bound for Caracas crashed into a Venezuelan mountainside Thursday shortly after taking off from Merida, killing all 46 people aboard.
Insurers for AAR Parts Trading Inc. and Fleet Business Credit Corp. have agreed to pay $165 million to settle lawsuits brought by family members of 103 victims of the 2000 Air Philippines Flight 541 crash.
A 1973 Cessna 150L prop plane that developed engine difficulties immediately after takeoff Tuesday morning was forced to make an emergency landing on a busy Mesa, Arizona, thoroughfare.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has struck down a New York law that allowed the state to penalize airlines for failing to provide adequate services for passengers during lengthy flight delays.
An Air Force pilot who was injured during a training exercise when his F-15 fighter disintegrated in mid-flight is suing Boeing, the aircraft’s manufacturer.
Two air carriers serving the Hawaiian Islands, Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines, Inc., declared bankruptcy and shuttered their doors suddenly this week, leaving thousands without jobs and many passengers scrambling to arrange alternate travel plans.
At a hearing held by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, veteran Federal Aviation Administration inspectors and Southwest Airlines whistleblowers told lawmakers that the airline was allowed by FAA officials to repeatedly violate safety rules.
Hundreds of thousands of passengers on American Airlines were left scrambling to arrange alternate travel plans this week after the airline cancelled over 3000 flights due to safety concerns.
The U.S. Senate is slated today to begin considering S.1300, the Aviation Investment and Modernization Act, also known as the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, after an agreement not to impose aviation user fees was reached Friday.
A US State Department official said today during a speech in Brussels that airline ownership rules in dozens of countries, including the US, should be eased in order to increase international investment in the industry.
A medical helicopter which crashed late Saturday after dropping a patient off at a La Crosse hospital was not equipped with two high-tech safety features recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board to prevent crashes.
A JetBlue flight was not such a happy jetting experience for Gokhan Mutlu: he says he was forced to relinquish his seat mid-flight and ride out the remainder of the trip in the plane's bathroom.
A landmark agreement reached last week by the European Union to limit greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft has ignited controversy and protest from trade groups who question the legality of the Union's decision.
A Paris prosecutor has filed manslaughter charges against Houston-based Continental Airlines along with five individuals in connection with the 2000 Concorde jet crash left 113 people dead.
12 years after TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island, killing 230, the FAA has passed a rule intended to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future.
Four people died Sunday when an emergency medical-services helicopter crashed in suburban Washington, D.C while attempting to land after picking up two automobile accident victims.
Two single-engine Cessnas containing a total of six people collided in midair Wednesday over Colorado, but all people aboard the planes survived and no injuries were reported.
DOJ antitrust regulators announced today that they will not halt the merger of Delta and Northwest, approving a deal which will create the world's largest airline.