World Nov 05 What happens when airlines receive bomb threats? By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Mark Carlson, Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press
World Oct 04 AP report: UAE had shared details about FlyDubai flight with Israel, including pilots' names and nationalities With the investigation underway, preliminary details about the incident have highlighted several major security lapses. By Melanie Lidman, Samy Magdy, Associated Press
World Aug 14 NTSB says broken engine parts shattered Ryanair plane window that a man's head got sucked into A fan blade in the Boeing 737-800's right engine broke loose, sending fragments flying out of the engine that broke the window and damaged the fuselage in several other places, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. By Josh Funk, Rio Yamat, Associated Press
World Jul 10 Man partly sucked out of broken window on flight from Greece was pulled back by passengers The incident happened on a morning flight from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to Memmingen, near Munich, which was operated by Ryanair subsidiary Malta Air. By Costas Kantouris, Associated Press
Nation Feb 10 Small plane strikes 3 vehicles in Georgia after making emergency landing on busy road A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in Georgia, striking three vehicles and leaving two people with minor injuries, authorities said, after one of the two pilots on board told air traffic controllers to let his… By Associated Press
Mar 13 Watch 8:21 Boeing remains under scrutiny amid quality control issues By Geoff Bennett, Miles O'Brien, Karina Cuevas Boeing remains on the hot seat over questions about its production processes. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board told lawmakers her investigators still don’t know who worked on the door panel that blew out of an Alaska Airlines… Continue watching
Jan 07 FAA says some Boeing 737 Max 9 planes may need maintenance to prevent another blowout By Claire Rush, David Koenig, Becky Bohrer, Associated Press Alaska Airlines again grounded all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners on Sunday after federal officials indicated further maintenance might be required to assure that another inflight blowout like the one that damaged one of its planes doesn’t happen again. Continue reading
Jan 06 Alaska Airlines grounds its Boeing 737-9 fleet after window blows out at 16,000 feet By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press An Alaska Airlines jetliner blew out a window and a portion of its fuselage shortly after takeoff three miles above Oregon, creating a gaping hole that sucked clothing off a child and forced the pilots to make an emergency landing… Continue reading
Sep 27 WATCH: Transportation Sec. Buttigieg holds briefing on impact of possible government shutdown By News Desk Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that air travel will remain safe in a shutdown, but that the training of new air traffic controllers will stop and 1,000 trainees will be furloughed. Continue reading
Sep 05 United Airlines departures resume after equipment outage briefly halted flights, FAA says By Associated Press The FAA says that for a time United crews were unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. The FAA says the issue was limited to United and its subsidiaries. Continue reading