Trump Begins Firings of FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Just Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy...
Investigators Say Black Hawk Altitude Gauges May Have Been Inaccurate Prior to Deadly DC Airplane Collision NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the Black Hawk helicopter was at approximately 278 feet altitude at the time of the crash...
Navy Growler Crashes into San Diego Bay During Landing; Crew Ejects The sea service said that the jet crashed while landing at 10:15 a.m. local time, but that both of the aviators aboard...
Recent Aviation Disasters Cause Fears About the Safety of Flying The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.
28 Agencies Were Authorized to Fly Helicopters Near Reagan Airport Before Deadly Crash As the wreckage of both aircraft are recovered, authorities are also looking at why the helicopter may have been flying above...
US Marine and 3 Defense Contractors Killed in Philippines Plane Crash The aircraft was conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the request of -- and in support of -- the...
Marine Corps Blames Pilot Error for Crash of Malfunctioning F-35 in South Carolina Forest An F-35B Lightning II fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina last year had an electrical malfunction, and the pilot...
Flaw in Osprey Gears Was Known a Decade Prior to Deadly Japan Crash, Internal Report Shows The revelations about the history of the gear problems come as family members from the Japan crash, as well as families of...
Black Hawk in Deadly Collision May Have Turned Off Location Monitor, But Trump Blames Air Traffic Control System President Donald Trump blamed the deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter last week on what he called an...
Investigators Examine Altitude Data in Black Hawk and Passenger Jet Collision The remains of all 67 victims of last week's midair collision of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...