All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2007 // Several dozen airports painted brighter runway markings, airlines began new pilot training and regulators agreed to order clearer taxiing instructions as part of a two-month industrywide effort to improve U.S. aircraft...
Oct 22 2007 // Felony charges were filed against two Texans accused of insurance fraud in Oklahoma, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.The charges, including conspiracy, racketeering and filing a false financial statement, were filed...
Oct 12 2007 // A federal safety panel concluded earlier this year that Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle died in a New York City plane crash because he and his instructor misjudged a turn.The finding has done little to settle the legal fights...
Sep 17 2007 // A passenger plane crashed while attempting to land at southern Thailand’s Phuket airport Sunday afternoon, possibly leaving some people dead and about 20 hurt, an official said. An unconfirmed television report said...
Sep 12 2007 // Omaha, NE – September 2007- SilverStone Group is proud to announce the addition of Charles Parmley. Charles is a 30-year veteran of the aviation industry who began his career as a draftsman generating engineering...
Sep 7 2007 // An insurance company is suing an airline for damage that a prize-winning $1 million Ferrari, owned by the chairman of the city’s public transportation system, sustained while being brought to this country from...
Aug 30 2007 // Federal investigators released their final report Tuesday on last summer’s deadly crash of a Comair flight in Kentucky, finding that the pilots were primarily responsible but making safety recommendations that extend...
Aug 29 2007 // The sole survivor from the airliner that crashed after taking off from the wrong runway at Lexington, Ky.’s Blue Grass Airport, killing 49 people, is suing the company that designed the runway and taxiway...
Aug 16 2007 // Comair has named the federal government, Blue Grass Airport and an airport administrator in federal lawsuits filed against the airline by families of victims of last year’s fatal crash in Kentucky.Comair spokeswoman...
Aug 15 2007 // A lead investigator of last summer’s deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed “latent failures” across the nation’s aviation system.In an eight-page...
Aug 6 2007 // Global firefighter claims U.S. Forest Service stonewalls on Russian aid while U.S. wildfires burnWhile the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square...
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Jul 23 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California, and an American pilot from Virginia...
Jul 23 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in more than a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California, and an American pilot from...
Jul 19 2007 // A South Carolina thunderstorm caused a wind gust of 75 mph at Columbia Metropolitan Airport on Tuesday, damaging a temporary hanger, authorities said. The storm also knocked out power at parts of the airport, but officials...
Jul 18 2007 // A terminal at Miami International Airport was evacuated early Monday after authorities found a possible explosive device at a security checkpoint. “A possible explosive device showed up in an X-ray machine at the...
Jul 11 2007 // A small plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban Orlando, Fla., neighborhood Tuesday morning, starting two house fires and injuring at least three people, authorities said.Both homes were largely...
Jun 21 2007 // A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency’s findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened...
Jun 5 2007 // Federal authorities announced they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a “chilling” attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic...