(CNN) -- A Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday after a football-sized hole in its fuselage caused the cabin to depressurize, an airline spokeswoman said. There were no injuries aboard the Boeing 737, which ...Read More
(Reuters) - A U.S. government watchdog faulted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for allowing Southwest Airlines Co to fly jets that had not undergone mandatory maintenance work, violating stipulated safety rules, the Wall Street Journal said.
The U.S. Office of Special ...Read More
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - A cargo plane with engine and landing gear problems made an emergency landing Thursday on the frozen surface of a lake outside the Estonian capital, authorities said.
One of the six crew members suffered minor injuries and ...Read More
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it ...Read More
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- The kit-built single-engine plane had turned into a glider, almost silently trying to make an emergency landing along a stretch of beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, ear buds in, listening to his iPod while ...Read More
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Authorities say jogger Robert Gary Jones probably neither saw nor heard the plane that struck him from behind as it made an emergency landing on the beach. They said Jones, a pharmaceutical salesman from Woodstock, Ga., ...Read More
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A father of two in town on business was jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing, officials ...Read More
With the sand in his feet and music in his ears, Robert Jones was doing what he loved. The Woodstock pharmaceutical salesman was oblivious to the calamity unfolding behind him. A single-engine plane, having lost its propeller, was in the midst ...Read More
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday. Robert Gary ...Read More
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-The pilot of a US Airways jet reported a bird strike and an engine problem shortly after takeoff from an upstate New York airport Thursday, forcing the plane to turn back and make an emergency landing, officials said. The ...Read More
ASPEN, Colo. -- Officials said a jet carrying 74 people made an emergency landing at the Aspen airport after smoke entered the pilot's cabin. Pitkin County Sheriff's Deputy Alex Burchetta said SkyWest Airlines Flight 5940 made a safe landing Sunday afternoon ...Read More
(CNN) -- Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a disabled passenger plane on New York's Hudson River in 2009, piloted his last flight for US Airways on Wednesday. Sullenberger, 59, has retired from the company he joined in 1980. "I ...Read More
NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - The pilot who spectacularly landed a crippled U.S. Airways (LCC.N) passenger jet in New York's Hudson River last year is retiring, the airline said on Wednesday. Stocks | Global Markets | Industrials All 155 passengers and ...Read More
Kevin Smith has a big mouth, and he knows it. When he got bounced off a Southwest Airlines flight for allegedly being too fat earlier this month, he quickly spread the news, via Twitter, complaining about the unfair treatment he ...Read More
Last night I spent an amusing hour-and-a-half at a Kevin Smith entertainment. I listened to Smodcast (Smith podcast) 106, recorded two weeks ago, about what the writer-director called "my portly misadventure" when he was tossed off a Southwest Airlines flight ...Read More
NEW YORK -- Airline officials say hundreds of flights have been canceled as a snowstorm bears down on the Northeast.
A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says there's no accumulation as of early Thursday at ...Read More
SALT LAKE CITY - A United Airlines jetliner that made an emergency landing today after a threatening note was found in the galley resumed its flight after seven hours on the ground. Flight 741, carrying 168 passengers and six crew, was ...Read More
A United Airlines jetliner that made an emergency landing Thursday after a threatening note was found in the galley resumed its flight after seven hours on the ground.
Flight 741, carrying 168 passengers and six crew, was en route from Denver ...Read More
Director Kevin Smith declared a Twitter war on Southwest Airlines over the weekend after the Silent Bob star was tossed off a flight from Oakland to Los Angeles for being 'Too Fat To Fly.' Smith has been Tweeting incessantly about ...Read More
BURBANK, Calif. - The Federal Aviation Administration says two flight attendants were injured when a Southwest Airlines pilot took sudden evasive action to avoid a collision with a private plane near Burbank over the weekend. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said Tuesday ...Read More
On Saturday, the crew of a Southwest Airlines flight between the California cities of Oakland and Burbank asked a passenger to leave the plane before takeoff because it deemed him too overweight to fly. Unfortunately, that passenger happened to be ...Read More
