All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2025 // Former Nascar driver Greg Biffle and his family are believed to have died when their Cessna Citation corporate jet crashed just minutes after taking off from a regional airport in North Carolina.“Although the...
Dec 15 2025 // Most aviation accidents are due to human error. An estimated 69% of general aviation non-commercial fixed-wing aircraft accidents in 2021 were caused by pilot mistakes. The right winter preparation, though, can help you...
Dec 15 2025 // A United Airlines light bound for Tokyo was forced to return to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia on Saturday afternoon after experiencing an engine failure during departure, the Federal Aviation...
Dec 10 2025 // A Beijing court has ruled Malaysia Airlines must pay 2.9 million yuan ($410,000) each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the disappearance of Flight 370 more than a decade ago.The court ordered the...
Dec 4 2025 // People movers will continue darting across Dulles International Airport for years to come, despite recent incidents that have revived safety questions for passengers who use them.At the Nov. 19 meeting of the Metropolitan...
Dec 3 2025 // Annie Vargas could see her son slipping away and pleaded with him to seek help. But her son, Brian Wittke, a 41-year-old Delta Air Lines pilot and father of three, pushed back, terrified that getting treatment for...
Dec 2 2025 // Airbus SE suffered a one-two punch on its popular A320 airliner after revealing a quality issue on some fuselage panels — just days after a software glitch on about 6,000 jets required emergency upgrades.“Airbus is...
Dec 1 2025 // Air France and Airbus clashed over the role of pilots in a mid-Atlantic crash that killed 228 passengers and crew more than 16 years ago as the two companies fought corporate manslaughter charges at the climax of an...
Nov 24 2025 // Electric air-taxi company Joby Aviation has sued rival Archer Aviation in California state court for allegedly stealing its trade secrets, according to a complaint made public on Thursday.Joby said in the lawsuit, filed on...
Nov 20 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at IQUW and The Fidelis Partnership.A summary of these new hires follows here. IQUW Taps Gregory From Munich Re as Underwriter in London Reinsurance...
Nov 11 2025 // A vehicle transporting passengers at a Washington, D.C.-area airport hit a dock at the building Monday afternoon, sending 18 people to the hospital, according to officials.A mobile lounge, which transports passengers...
Nov 11 2025 // United Airlines has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it unfairly charged passengers extra money to sit in “window seats” that, to their surprise, lacked windows.Passengers filed proposed...
Nov 10 2025 // Airlines canceled more than 2,200 U.S. flights on Sunday and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned air travel will fall to a “trickle” in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday as air traffic control...
Nov 7 2025 // More than six years after a Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed in Ethiopia, the first civil trial related to the disaster that killed all 157 people on board was set to proceed.Boeing has settled most of the dozens of...
Nov 7 2025 // Boeing Co. will avoid a criminal charge over two fatal 737 Max crashes after a federal judge paved the way for a $1.1 billion settlement agreement, handing the embattled manufacturer a victory in a long-running legal...
Nov 6 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday was working to hammer out details of an unprecedented plan to cut 10% of flights at 40 high-traffic U.S. airports to address safety concerns regarding air traffic controllers...
Oct 27 2025 // U.S. carrier Alaska Airlines said it had restored operations after a technology outage that grounded flights across the country and forced it to cancel more than 400 flights, disrupting travel for more than 49,000...
Oct 27 2025 // An employee allegedly stole 47 vehicles from an Avis Budget site at an upstate New York airport and rented them out around the region, police said Friday.The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles,...
Oct 24 2025 // Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the Federal Aviation Administration said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day.The...
Oct 24 2025 // Alphabet’s Waymo said on Wednesday it will begin manual testing of its autonomous vehicles at Newark Liberty International Airport, as the firm looks to bring its robotaxis to one of the three main airports serving...