Airbus is expected to face calls to ground its worldwide fleet of long-range airliners tomorrow when French accident investigators issue their first account of what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash off Brazil on June 1.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lands in the Mojave Desert May 24, 2009 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base near Mojave, California. The landing, which occurred in California instead of at the Kennedy Space Center because of bad weather at the Florida landing site, concludes mission STS-125 to the Hubble Space Telescope where the astronauts performed five spacewalks during an 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the telescope.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter, designed to be the world’s top air-superiority aircraft, crashed Wednesday near Edwards Air Force Base, California, while on a test mission, an Air Force official said.
A federal aviation official says 17 people, including several children, have been killed in the crash of a small plane in Butte, Montana. The official says the plane had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had originally filed a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman, Montana.
A Continental Express flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house about five miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 49 people, officials said.
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Two single-engine war planes at an experimental airshow collided while landing Friday, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
A Continental Express flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house about five miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 49 people, officials said.
