5 pairs of planes came too close, FAA admits
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At least five pairs of planes came closer than federal aviation standards allow during Tuesday&#39;s failure of a critical air-traffic control communications system covering the southwestern United States, officials with the Federal Aviation Administration
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A single-engine plane tried to take off from the wrong runway less than three months after a deadly crash in which a jet mistakenly took off on the same strip, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - A small plane attempting an emergency landing crashed into two houses in Sanford, Florida, on Tuesday, killing at least five people and causing an intense fire, investigators said.
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A communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the West to hold flights on the ground Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman said.
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Businesses whose models share too much in common with the airlines are likely to suffer a similar fate.
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Comair has begun warning pilots to use "extreme caution" when navigating runways at the airport where a crash killed 49 people last month, saying some diagrams aren't accurate, according to an e-mail obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
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Two Federal Aviation Administration employees have accused the agency of "covering up" serious incidents in which planes got too close to each other in the Dallas area, according to a government investigator who suggested that such practices might extend to other parts of the country.
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An American Airlines pilot made rudder movements that were ``unnecessary and too aggressive&#39;&#39; in the November 2001 crash of an Airbus SAS plane in New York that killed 265 people, a US safety board investigator said.
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LOS ANGELES -- A three-hour air traffic control outage Tuesday that grounded hundreds of flights across the West also led to five close calls in which planes didn&#39;t keep a recommended minimum distance between each other, the FAA said Wednesday.
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Numerous flights were delayed or canceled at Reno-Tahoe International Airport during a five-hour period while the Federal Aviation Administration was doing equipment repairs during a heavy snowstorm.
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Airplane maker Airbus Industrie blamed American Airlines in court papers for &quot;improper&quot; flight operations that it said caused Flight 587 to crash in 2001, killing 265 people.
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Five die as two small planes collide and break up over California, sending debris crashing on car dealerships.
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Two planes came within 100 feet of colliding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after one missed its turn onto a taxiway and entered the runway where the other was about to land, federal authorities said.
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A communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the West to hold flights on the ground in some cases for more than three hours Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
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Two light aircraft are involved in a mid-air collision in the midlands.
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Pilots are worried about safety in an air travel system stretched tight, with airline work forces reduced.