Air Travel

A 17-year-old boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia before being restrained by a pilot and two passengers, police said Friday.

The plane, headed from the Minneapolis area to Mazatlán, landed without incident, and all the passengers got off safely, Sun Country Airlines said.

SkyWest flight 5690 safely landed at Waco Regional Airport on Sunday evening.

Pilot error played a role in the majority of high-profile plane crashes and close calls in the last few weeks, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday as he called for pilots to face serious consequences when they disregard air traffic controllers, NBC News reported. 

“I don’t want to see people lose their lives because we have an air traffic control system that fails,” the transportation secretary said Thursday on a visit to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City.

The FAA says an American Airlines plane arriving in Washington DC discontinued its landing, performing a go-around to avoid getting too close to another aircraft departing from the same runway.

The Malaysian government said it had given initial approval for the U.S.-based company Ocean Infinity to resume the search for MH370, which vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board.

The CEO of Monumental Sports and Entertainment had a personal connection with some of the members of the figure skating community killed in the midair collision over the Potomac River.

The couple was on a Qatar Airways flight from Australia to Qatar. The airline apologized for the incident in a statement.

A Delta Air Lines flight returned to Atlanta shortly after takeoff when the crew reported “possible smoke” in the aircraft, according to the FAA.

An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi, India, has landed safely in Rome after it was diverted due to a security issue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. A spokesman with Leonardo da Vinci Airport did not give the reason for the change in flight plans over the Caspian Sea. An Associated Press reporter filmed two fighter...

A crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight in Toronto has highlighted the potential dangers of flying with a young child on an adult’s lap.

Experts say a combination of training and technology were critical to all 76 passengers and four crew members surviving the fiery Delta Air Lines plane crash in Toronto.

Two people were killed Wednesday when two small single-engine private planes collided mid-air at an Arizona airport.

The day after a Delta flight from Minneapolis overturned while landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, first responders answered questions from press.

A passenger on the flight that crashed while landing in Toronto recalls hanging upside down by his seat belt.

The company says the layoffs are part of its plan to minimize costs and increase efficiencies. 

At least 15 people suffered minor injuries and were transported by ground for treatment, but two others were airlifted to a nearby trauma center in critical condition, according to Peel Regional Paramedic Services. One child taken by ambulance to a nearby children’s hospital in downtown Toronto.

At least 17 people were injured when a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis crashed upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada, according to the FAA and local authorities.

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal midair collision near Washington. Probationary workers were targeted in late-night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired. That’s according to David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union. One air traffic...