The FAA said the latest group of pilot reports it recently released shows a dramatic rise in claims of drone encounters over the last 10 months, leading to calls for the agency to take more aggressive enforcement action. Last week, t...

 A China Airlines flight en route from Ho Chi Minh City to Taipei was delayed for hours on Thursday after the plane was hit by a luggage truck at Tan Son Nhat Airport. The truck hit the rear part of the aircraft, an Airbus 330, when approaching to load on luggage, a source told Thanh Nien. About 300 passengers on the flight, previously planned to de...

    Aviation authorities in Asia and Europe are to conduct a joint study into wake turbulence to determine whether the distances between aircraft can be reduced while maintaining safety standards. The Civil Aviation Authority of ...

    It is not surprising that a 2012 study conducted by NASA for the FAA found that air traffic controllers sometimes experience fatigue, which can negatively impact their on-the-job performance ["U.S. air controller study shows chro...

    FAA has released a list of all reports by pilots, air traffic and the public of possible encounters with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that were submitted between Nov., 2014 and August 20. The list, posted on the FAA site Aug. 21,...

    The plane was among a group of aircraft parked on the taxiway as a result of a ground stop on Tuesday. A passenger on a jet waiting to leave Hartsfield-Jackson ...

    An undated photo of the SkyLife Air Ambulance helicopter that was involved in a near collision with a drone. (Brett Schoenwald/ SkyLife Air Ambulance) On Sunday, a swarm of small rogue drones disrupted air traffic across the ...

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    MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. - A panel door from a plane that was landing in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon fell just yards away from golfers in Mount Holly.   The door fell off an American Airlines Flight 1910 from Dallas that...

An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said, with search efforts hampered by failing light as night falls. "We can't confirm it has crashed. We can say contact has been lost with the pl...