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Police in North Carolina have arrested and charged two men -- one an airport employee -- for possessing a homemade bomb, police said. They said a man named Derrick Fells, 39, had constructed the device.
According a Facebook post by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, K-9 Officer Jeremy Mason was shot in the face while pursuing a bank robbery suspect and three time convicted felon. He was shot by the suspect while driving, but continued the pursuit and even fired back.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Department, Paul Dandan, who worked as an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration , was arrested on multiple charges, including possession of a weapon of mass destruction and acquiring a weapon of mass destruction. Police said the device was not located at the airport, but instead found at Dandan's apartment.
An air traffic controller at Charlotte Douglas International Airport was arrested Friday in Charlotte after investigators alleged he was in possession of a weapon of mass destruction. According to the FBI, Paul George Dandan, 30, was charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction.
On final approach to Runway 23 in a D-18 Beech at Mansfield Lama Airport, Ohio, we received this inquiry from the control tower ...... As I approached Sarasota Airport on the downwind there was a Cessna 172 ahead of me who asked the tower clearance for landing ...... You and your safety pilot always need to have the same plan in mind, but you also can fly them solo when conditions are right.
A pilot managed to safely land a single-engine airplane at Long Beach Airport. Sunday, Nov. 5, despite losing a piece of the aircraft's nose gear upon takeoff, officials said.
With the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 2028, our region is laser-focused on developing and improving critical infrastructure to be able to adequately support this global event. As the mayor of the city of San Fernando, I know that we must do everything we can to prepare locally, so that our businesses and residents can reap the benefits of having the Olympics right here in our backyard, without any added problems.
Officials have ruled the deaths of NASCAR driver Ted Christopher and an 81-year-old pilot in a Connecticut plane crash an accident. The medical examiner's office said Thursday the September deaths of 59-year-old Christopher and the plane's pilot, Charles Dundas, were caused by blunt trauma.
Scott and Laura Douglas were killed last year in a hot air balloon crash. Scott's parents, Harvey and Jan Douglas, remember their children through family photo albums.
Officials say the Thunder's charter plane suffered a major dent to the nose of the plane early Saturday morning. According to a report by ESPN, the flight was a little turbulent but players didn't realize anything was wrong.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued the waiver in October, which will allow the media organization to fly drones, or "unmanned aircraft systems," up to 150 feet above ground. "This is a big step forward for the industry as a whole," says Lisa Ellman, a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington D.C, the firm that represented CNN.
Americans could see a lot more drones flying around their communities as the result of a Trump administration test program to increase government and commercial use of the unmanned aircraft. President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead Wednesday, signing a directive intended to increase the number and complexity of drone flights.
Six times the control tower at San Francisco International Airport ordered an incoming Air Canada plane to abort its landing, fearing another plane might be on the runway. Each time, the order went unanswered.
American aviation officials are investigating after an Air Canada flight from Montreal landed on a San Francisco runway after being told not to. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says Air Canada flight 781 was inbound to San Francisco International Airport on Sunday night and was initially cleared for landing.
Just three months after an Air Canada plane nearly landed on a crowded SFO taxiway, the FAA has launched another investigation into why a second passenger jet from that airline Sunday ignored a San Francisco air traffic controller's repeated order to abort a landing. Air Canada Flight 781, an Airbus A320, was preparing to land at SFO on Runway 28-Right on Sunday night.
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WEBVTT KEEPING BIRDS AWAY FROM THESACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTIS NO EASY TASK.AS WAS THE CASE THIS MORNINGWHEN AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHTFROM SACRAMENTO TO DALLAS HAD TOTURN AROUND MOMENTS AFTEPASSENGER BRYAN DEMPSEYWITNESSED THIS.>> I SAW SEVERAL SHAPES GO INTOONE OF THE TURBINES.THEY LOOKED LIKE BIRDS.I WASN'T SURE.DANA: IN THE YOLO BYPASSWILDLIFE AREA, THESE BIRDS,FLYING IN UNISON ARE LIKELY HEREFOR 3 REASONS, REST, WATER, ANDFOOD.>> SPEAKING OF THE SACRAMENTOAIRPORT, IT IS SURROUNDED BYRICE.DANA: KEN EALY, AN AVID BIRDWATCHER AND PRESIDENT OF THEYOLO AUDUBON SOCIETY,SAYS THOUSANDS MIGRATE THIS TIMEOF YEAR AND THAT BIRD STRIKES ATTHE SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONALAIRPORT ARE NOTHING NEW.>> I MEAN, THEY KNOW THE PLANEIS THERE, THEY'RE KEEPING ADISTANCE.THAT THEY FEEL IS A SAFEDISTANCE BUT IF THEY GET INTOTHAT VORTEX, THEY CAN'T HELP ITBECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE STRONGERTHAT THEIR WINGS.DANA: ... (more)
Airliners began flying over Twila Lake's bungalow-style house in a historic district three years ago, taking off every one to two minutes from the Phoenix airport and roaring over her neighborhood. It was a sudden change after rarely hearing jets in her previous 13 years in the downtown neighborhood.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will appear Monday before the judge deciding his punishment for endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.