NEW YORK (AP) - A puppy named Byrdie delayed several flights at New York's LaGuardia Airport when she escaped from her crate and frolicked around a busy runway. The Port Authority says the 30-pound Rhodesian ridgeback scampered around the runway for about 10 minutes on Wednesday while authorities unsuccessfully tried to collar her. The agency says they h...

"Five years ago we passed the point where automation was there to back up pilots," said Flight Safety Foundation CEO Bill Voss at last week's Flight Safety Foundation Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar in San Antonio. "Clearly today, the pilot is there to be the backup to the automation." Voss told AIN  "This is simply a realis...

Regulating the amount that airline pilots fly remains hotly contested, as pilots urge the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt the same rules for cargo as for passenger flights. The concern is that a drowsy pilot could cause problems in the same airspace or runways that passenger planes travel. But when the FAA finalized its rule in December fo...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bird strike forced a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Los Angeles to make an emergency return to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport 10 minutes after takeoff on Thursday, authorities said. The pilot of Delta Flight 1063 reported an engine-related problem and landed the Boeing 757 safely at the New York airport from wh...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed into wheat fields Friday as it was trying to land in bad weather at an airport near the capital, Islamabad, officials said. Sobbing relatives of those on the flight flocked to the airport as a government minister expressed little hope of finding survivors. Emergency workers ...

(Bloomberg) - The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking comments on whether to align rules restricting lithium-battery shipments by air with United Nations standards, after companies including Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. opposed stricter U.S. regulation.  Lithium batteries, used in laptop computers, mobile phones and h...

THE influential Flight Safety Foundation has called for a revision of proposed US rules requiring commercial pilots to have at least 1500 hours of flight experience. FSF chief executive Bill Voss warned a US senate sub-committee on aviation operations, safety and security against requirements that placed an undue focus on the quantity, rather than qual...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Korean Air passenger jet made an emergency landing at a Canadian military airbase after a call centre in the United States received a threat by telephone late on Tuesday, the airline said. Korean Air flight 72, which was en route to South Korean capital Seoul, diverted to the Comox base on Vancouver Island in Canada's Pacific pr...

PHOENIX (AP) - A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Phoenix has landed safely after one of the plane's engines shut down as it began to descend over Arizona. Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec says Flight 2046 carrying 159 passengers landed normally Saturday afternoon at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It taxied to the gate under its own pow...

The scene of the crash near Virginia Beach, Virginia (BBC)A US Navy F-18 jet has crashed shortly after take off in a residential area near Virginia Beach, Virginia. A Navy spokesman told the BBC that the plane went down just before 12:08 (16:08 GMT) and two crew members ejected safely. The plane hit an apartment building, with photos showing b...