Australia approves extradition of ex-US Marine pilot over training work in China
Australia agreed to extradite a former US Marine Corps (USMC) pilot suspected of having trained Chinese military pilots. Daniel…
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Man extradited to US over Pan Am bombing in Lockerbie in 1988
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, a Libyan national who was charged with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103…
How one elusive man changed aircraft design: The D.B. Cooper story
Hijackings are now considered a rare occurrence. Unfortunately, during the 20th century, they were much more common compared…
Former US Marine pilot faces extradition over work in China: Reuters
A former United States Marine Corps (USMC) pilot and flight instructor who worked several years in China faces…
Pilot sues Southwest Airlines after captain exposed himself mid-flight: AP
A Southwest Airlines (LUV) pilot is suing the airline, her union and an ex-colleague after the co-worker locked…
US Department of Justice to step up prosecution of unruly airline passengers
As air travel picks up across the United States during this holiday season, the US Department of Justice…
JetBlue passenger assaults flight attendant, attempts to access cockpit
A passenger onboard a JetBlue (JBLU) flight (Number 261) en route to San Juan Airport (SJU) had to…
Threat to attack US Capitol heard by air traffic controllers
New York air traffic controllers heard a threat to crash a plane into the US Capitol as an…
JAL Boeing 787 wing collides with tail of Delta Boeing 737 in Seattle: video
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transport Safety Bureau (NTSB) in the US have launched an…
American Airlines ramp worker fatally injured after incident with ground vehicle
An American Airlines employee has sustained fatal injuries after an incident on the apron at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport…
US DOT sues Southwest, fines Frontier Airlines for chronic flight delays
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and imposed a fine on…
Lithuania finds no evidence of ‘unlawful interference’ in DHL Vilnius crash
The preliminary analysis of the black boxes from the DHL cargo aircraft that crashed in Vilnius in late…
Allied Air Boeing 737F runs off runway in Abuja, sustains substantial damage
An Allied Air Cargo Boeing 737 freighter has sustained substantial damage after suffering from a runway excursion at…
Investigators begin analyzing black boxes from DHL aircraft crash in Vilnius
Investigators have begun the process of decrypting data from the black boxes extracted from a DHL cargo aircraft…
Plane hijackings: from evil acts of violence to a 52-year-old unsolved mystery
Before the 1970s, airport screening was very rarely heard of. In fact, it was only in response to…
Boeing ‘broke promises to the world’ CEO told at highly charged Senate hearing
The CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun, appeared before senators at the Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington DC just…
Delta pilots requested deviation before severe turbulence event: NTSB
The United States (US) National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has claimed that Delta Air Lines pilots requested a…
United Nigeria Airlines 50-seater Embraer jet skids off runway in Lagos
A 50-seater Embraer ERJ145 flown by United Nigeria Airlines skidded off the runway in Lagos, Nigeria. Details surrounding the…