For a mystery writer like me, much of the why the plane overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles conjecture has been deeply unsatisfying.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE: The FAA computer glitch has been resolved, though problems continue to ripple across the country from the nearly five hour computer outage. Ge...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER and JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology
ATLANTA — For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air tra...
AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
BRUSH, Colo. — A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passin...
AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home
PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft. Fede...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The search for nine people missing when a U.S. Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine Corps helicopter over the Pacific Ocean is...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
The case of the Northwest Pilots keeps getting funnier and funnier. Of course, it wouldn't be one bit amusing if it had happened to me.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneap...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
If you learned upon landing that your plane's pilots had overshot the airport by 150 miles because they fell asleep at the controls, what would you feel?
NPR | By Adam Hochberg | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
AmSafe is supplying the product to most major U.S. airlines to help comply with a new government crash standard. The rule has been phased in slowly ov...
DailyFinance | Bruce Watson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
On Wednesday night, Northwest Airlines (DAL) Flight 188, an Airbus A-320, overshot its destination by 150 miles before the pilots re-established conta...
AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home
MINNEAPOLIS — Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minnea...
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
When Falcon let loose the truth on prime time to Wolf Blitzer, even Barney Fife could have figured it out. By his own admission, that was the first moment the light came on for local Sheriff Jim Alderden.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed levying multimillion-dollar fines against United Airlines and US Airways for safety violations, including flying a plane after mechanics stuffed shop towels into an engine.
The agency said it has proposed a $5.4 million fine against US Airways of Tempe, Ariz., for operating eight planes on a total of 1,647 flights from October 2008 to January 2009 in violation of safety directives or the company's own maintenance rules.
The agency also said it is proposing a $3.8 million fine against United of Chicago for operating one of its Boeing 737 aircraft on more than 200 flights with shop towels covering openings near where oil collects in the bottom of the engine instead of using protective caps required by the carrier's maintenance procedures.
Under FAA rules, the airlines have 30 days to present mitigating evidence before the agency can impose the fines. It's not unusual for fines to be reduced as the result of negotiations.
The hefty fines reflect the large number of flights that were allowed to carry passengers in violation of safety requirements, FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said. The agency doesn't know how many passengers were on the flights, she said.
AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
NEWARK, N.J. — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will change rules for the airspace over the Hudson River in New York City f...
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
DALLAS — Federal officials say a maintenance company hired by Southwest Airlines used unapproved parts for repairs on some jets. The parts will...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Air traffic controllers who direct planes in and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have too little time off between shifts...
Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Every air accident is the result of someone failing to imagine or anticipate a combination of circumstances that should have been anticipated by someone. And I'll be you dollars to donuts that someone, or maybe even a whole lot of someones that worked on the design of the Airbus A330 has a pretty good idea of what went wrong.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
FedEx CEO Fred Smith is always full of surprises. First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Like the rest of America, I just can't wait to see the poster or the brochure or the diorama that's so super-important that New York City needed to be terrified and traumatized in the process of its creation.
Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS OF THE AIR FORCE ONE FLYOVER ON APRIL 27 UPDATE: Louis Caldera, Director of White House Military Affairs and responsible for...
npr.org | By Deborah Tedford | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
The annual number of collisions between aircraft and wildlife quadrupled from 1990 to 2007 and poses a growing threat to aviation, according to a Fede...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home
***UPDATE*** The Director of the White House Military Office released this statement apologizing the "confusion and disruption" caused by the flight o...
AP | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, with New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramen...
Susan Isaacs | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living