Feb 13 Plane Plunges Into Home in New York, Killing 50 By PBS News Hour Federal investigators are sifting through the debris of a deadly plane crash near Buffalo, N.Y., in hopes of finding the "black boxes" and clues about the cause of the accident. Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch Pakistan Under Pressure as Mumbai Fallout Continues With pressure increasing on Pakistan to play a wider role in the investigation of the attacks in Mumbai, India, Margaret Warner updates the latest developments and speaks with Simon Marks, who is reporting from India, on the overall security situation… Continue watching
Dec 02 Thai Court Rules to Disband Governing Party, Dismiss Prime Minister By PBS News Hour Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was removed from power, banned from politics for five years and his People Power Party disbanded on Tuesday as Thailand's three-year political crisis continued. Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch Chicago Airport Faces Serious Growing Pains Ray Suarez examines Chicago O'Hare Airport's battle to increase its capacity and problems with the entire air traffic system. Continue watching
Jul 03 Watch Issues with Large Commercial Carriers Trouble Small Town Airports Trouble has been brewing among large air carriers, plagued with high costs, competition and traffic, but these troubles have now begun to take their toll on regional airports, which are struggling to just survive. Elizabeth Bracket reports from Indiana. Continue watching
Apr 09 American Airlines Cancels 850 Flights Due to Wiring Concerns By PBS News Hour American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, cancelled 850 additional flights on Wednesday after cancelling nearly 500 on Tuesday in order to reinspect and possibly rework the wiring of its widely-used MD-80 fleet. Continue reading
May 18 Watch Islamic Community in Minnesota Faces Growing Pains Almost 50,000 of the growing immigrant population in Minneapolis and St. Paul are Somali Muslims, who have been arriving steadily since civil war wracked their home country in 1991. The NewsHour presents a report on the Muslim community's efforts at… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch New Method for Identifying Suspicious Persons Used at Some Airports Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, aviation security continues to evolve. Airports are using new techniques for identifying suspicious travellers, including "behavior pattern recognition."… Continue watching
Aug 18 Airlines Agree to Reduce Flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport U.S. airlines agreed Wednesday to limit flights into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in an effort to alleviate congestion that has plagued the airport with delays. Continue reading
Apr 04 Coalition Claims Control of Airport, Forces Poise on Baghdad's Edge After an all-night battle, U.S. military officials said that coalition forces had seized control of Baghdad's main airport Friday, a key development in their campaign to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. Continue reading