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Video: Flight landing at LaGuardia skids off runway

By Margaret Myers

A Delta flight landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport skidded off the runway Thursday morning before coming to a rest against an embankment. No injuries have been reported.

Outgoing West Africa travelers redirected to 5 U.S. airports for Ebola screenings

By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Everyone coming to the United States from the three West African countries at the center of the Ebola outbreak will now be screened for the deadly disease at one of five airports, the Homeland Security Department said Tuesday.

Ebola airport screenings supported by federal law, experts say

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost certainly stand up in court if challenged, public health experts say.

Intentionally set fire grounds flights at Chicago airports

By Ariel Min

A fire at an air traffic control facility outside of Chicago, which authorities said was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration, grounded all flights into and out of two Chicago airports on Friday.

Deer prove dangerous to airports and pilots

By Joan Lowy, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Long the bane of gardeners and unwary motorists, soaring deer populations are also nuisances for airports and threats to pilots, especially at this time of year, according to aviation and wildlife experts.

U.S. tightens security at overseas airports with direct flights into the country

By Ken Dilanian, Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security.

Air traffic controllers working exhausting schedules, report finds

By Joan Lowy, Associated Press

Three years after a series of incidents in which controllers were found to be sleeping on the job, a National Research Council report released Friday expressed astonishment that the Federal Aviation Administration still permits controllers to work schedules that cram…

Passenger and cargo planes’ wrong landings more common than previously thought

By Associated Press

U.S. commercial air carriers have landed or started to land at the wrong airports at least 150 times since the early 1990s, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports. And the problem…