MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport officials say two planes have been damaged after their wings collided while preparing for takeoff. An airport spokesman says the Delta Air Lines planes clipped their wings Wednesday night at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after leaving their gates and getting ready to take off. A Delta 757 was bound f...

SAVANNAH, GA. - The pilot of a private jet failed to follow correct landing procedures and likely was fatigued from a lack of sleep when the plane went down in a fiery crash in eastern Georgia last year, killing a vascular surgeon and four co-workers on board, federal investigators concluded in a report Tuesday. Richard Trammell was at the controls of t...

Flight Safety Foundation Highlights New Initiatives At NBAA In Orlando Representatives of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), the independent international safety organization, are showcasing here at the NBAA Convention the latest initiatives focused on the business aviation community. These efforts include development of a security risk assessment tool, ...

Singapore-l The Singapore-Mumbai plane, an A380 double-deck, had 408 passengers and 25 crew on board. (Source: AP/file photo) In a close shave, a packed super jumbo aircraft of Singapore Airlines with over 430 people on board was hit by sudden turbulence during descent here, leaving eight passengers and 14 crew members injured. The Singapore-Mumbai pla...

The pilot of a single-engine aircraft failed to activate the landing gear while descending to New Bedford Regional Airport on Monday, significantly damaging the plane but causing no injuries, officials said. The experienced pilot was flying at 1,000 feet at about 11:30 a.m to test some new equipment that had been installed on the aircraft, said Erick D'Le...

A new NASA-developed Automatic Ground-Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) that could significantly reduce the incidence of controlled flight into terrain aircraft accidents is currently being integrated into the flight control systems of the U.S. Air Force's fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft. The new software, pioneered at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research...

Airbus to Put New Type of Floating 'Black Boxes' on Future Models By ANDY PASZTOR U.S., European and international air-safety authorities appear to be heading in different directions when it comes to requiring real-time tracking of airliners or mandating installation of video recorders in their cockpits. The splits, which emerged during a public forum...

A map of the Indian Ocean floor off western Australia, where the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed Monday. (Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center/European Pressphoto Agency)A Seven months after the disappearance of a jetliner with 239 people on board, international aviation experts gathered in Washington on Tuesday to mul...

SYDNEY, Australia - The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has resumed in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, more than six months after the jet disappeared with 239 people aboard. The GO Phoenix, one of three ships that are expected to spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage, arrived in the search area about 1,100 miles west of Australia ear...

Incidents involving two Malaysian Airlines aircraft earlier this year are among the occurrences driving the global air transportation industry's push to continue to improve aviation security. International Air Transport Association (IATA) leadership is continuing to lead the industry in that regard with a focus on bringing together all of the various aspec...