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Two planes almost collided at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday, prompting a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigation.

The Boeing whistleblower who died suddenly has been confirmed to have committed suicide and directly blamed his former employer for it.

Experts are asking Congress to prevent migrants from bypassing TSA rules while flying throughout the United States.

Southwest Airlines will be cutting jobs and ceasing operations at four airports while reducing flights from others to cut costs amid Boeing’s ongoing complications.

Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) is leading the charge fighting the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new practice of housing thousands of “potential terrorists” at airports across the country.

Two JetBlue planes collided while on the tarmac at the Boston Logan International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed Thursday morning.

Three people died when a plane crashed into a mobile home park in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday evening.

A cargo plane made an emergency landing Thursday evening at Miami International Airport when huge sparks began flying out of the aircraft.

A small plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco, California, after “flying erratically” Sunday evening.

Friends are mourning a pilot who was among those killed during a hot air balloon crash near Eloy, Arizona, early Sunday.

The FAA is working to hire people with psychiatric problems and other concerning issues in order to be more diverse and inclusive.

Chaos erupted on an Alaska Airlines plane when a massive piece of the aircraft blew off mid-flight, sucking out passengers’ belongings.

Spirit Airlines is in hot water after mistakenly flying an unaccompanied 6-year-old to the wrong destination, hundreds of miles from his family right before Christmas.

The skies of California are set to witness the flight of the latest toy of the Masters of the Universe — Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s Pathfinder 1, a helium-filled airship that recently gained flight clearance from the FAA.

Concerns that engine parts were sold with fraudulent safety certificates have upended the aviation industry.

Nearly 5,000 pilots are suspected to have lied about having mental health conditions and other health disorders which would prevent them from flying.

Democrat Sen. Jon Tester (MT) received tens of thousands of dollars from Boeing lobbyists and failed to disclose a meeting at a Boeing facility attended by one of its lobbyists last October, Politico reported.

Seven people died in private plane crashes in Alaska, California, and South Carolina over the holiday weekend.

The Senate Commerce Committee delayed on Wednesday a nomination vote to advance President Joe Biden’s FAA nominee out of committee.

An article in the Washington Post echoes what many Americans have been thinking about the state of air travel these days. Were there always so many near-misses on the tarmac? Were there always such hostile passengers attacking airline crews? WaPo tries to break it down.

An internal Transportation Department watchdog said on Monday that it would conduct an audit of Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s use of Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) taxpayer-funded jets for official trips, in addition to his predecessor’s travel, Elaine Chao.

Several people were hurt when a plane hit a shuttle bus Friday at Los Angeles Airport, the third similar incident in the past month.

Flight cancelations — particularly at Texas airports — are piling up as an ice storm batters portions of the south and mid-south, creating hazardous traveling conditions.

A red faced U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) admitted Thursday its staff “unintentionally deleted files” in a key computer system causing the January 11 commercial airline ground stop, which affected more than 11,000 flights and caused mayhem for travelers.

A JetBlue plane headed to Puerto Rico clipped another aircraft, which was empty, at JFK Airport Wednesday, building on the chaos that nearly ensued days earlier at the same airport.

Two planes narrowly missed crashing into each other at the JFK airport on Friday and officials are working to determine what happened.

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) said there hasn’t been proper investment in systems like the NOTAM system and noted that the FAA was warned about problems with the NOTAM system being dated by the

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese argued that there should be more investment in the FAA and that doing so has “an enormous return” for Americans. Deese said, “It’s unambiguous

A “corrupt system” could be to blame for the mass system failure experienced Wednesday —  resulting in flights being temporarily grounded, spurring thousands of delays  — according to reports.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said that the failure of the NOTAM system that led to flights being grounded was a management failure and a lack of needed redundancy in

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) said that updating the air traffic control system has been “far too slow, far too expensive,” and received too much resistance from airlines and Congress needs to “consistently

There is “no evidence” at this time that Wednesday’s Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage, temporarily resulting in grounded flights across the U.S., was a result of a cyber attack, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced in an update.

The FAA ordered a nationwide halt to domestic flights in the United States on Wednesday morning due to a major software meltdown. The error that led to this failure reportedly was caused by an engineer replacing one file with another while working on the system. One FAA official stated, “It was an honest mistake that cost the country millions.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “John Bachman Now,” Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) stated that the shutdown of the NOTAM system that led to flights being grounded is an example of “if we go woke, we go broke” and the left being more concerned with symbolism ahead of substance.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that the FAA ground stoppage is yet another example of problems at the Department of Transportation and said, “We’re sending them a lot

The FAA’s Notice to Air Missions system crashed Tuesday evening and was not fixed until midmorning Wednesday, forcing all flights to be grounded in the United States.