ATC tower at Washington Dulles International Airport FAA is fighting a perception problem over how much progress is being made in implementing the NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization program, a top agency ...

 GRAND FORKS - A team of North Dakota researchers is testing technology that will allow airplane pilots and others to detect the presence of flying drones and avoid incidents such as midair collisions.   The research project is using cooperative ...

  A ban on carrying the Note 7 on aircraft took effect after U.S. deemed it a hazard A widespread ban on carrying Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Note 7 cellphones on aircraft went into force on Saturday, after U.S. air-safety officials deemed ...

 Delta plans to start equipping planes with fire-containment bags, joining other carriers, such as Alaska Airlines   A Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to its gate earlier this month after a passenger's smartphone started sm...

 Two planes collided at Newark Liberty International Airport Wednesday afternoon, just a day after a similar incident occurred at the same airport. United Airlines Flight 31 - a Boeing 767 - clipped the right wing of Austrian Airlines Flight 90, ...

  On 19 May, EgyptAir Flight 804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 56 passengers and 10 crew members aboard. The Wikipedia entry documenting the disaster went up within hours, and it will likely remain online into perpetuity. Human ...

    Pan-European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol is to host a workshop to initiate a project to deliver a broad air-ground data communications service, as it bids to restore confidence in a highly-problematic datalink concept. Th...

 Airlines are struggling to deal with passengers and potentially dangerous Samsung Note 7s as a massive recall campaign for the phones continues. Last week, a phone carried by a passenger on Southwest Airlines overheated, leading to the aircraft's ...

 FAA officials said the "compliance philosophy" adopted by the agency a year ago, which shifted FAA's emphasis away from punitive enforcement actions, has enabled it to aggregate and analyze key safety data voluntarily provided by airlines ...

 The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has signed a supplementary memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) to work together on improving global aviation safety.   The collaboration will see the enhance...