Kapco Global Acquires D+C-Airparts Battery In Europe GmbH

Acquisition will help Kapco Global further expand its service and repair offerings while maintaining its highest standards of quality and customer care. To have their expertise and service capabilities now under the Kapco Global name means an expansion of our international footprint and added value for our customers and suppliers throughout the world.

Drones Are Getting Their Own Air Traffic Control With No Need For Humans

Drones are buzzing around the sky delivering products to customers, snapping videos and photos and conducting search and rescue missions, making it necessary for all of these high-flying machines to be regulated with their own air traffic system set to launch by 2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration and corporations to research requirements necessary for a drone traffic management system, and whatever they learn will be tested this summer, according to the Los Angeles Times .

Delta Apologizes To Family That Was Kicked Off A Plane Over A Toddler’s Seat

Delta is the latest airline to face fallout from an on-plane dispute, after a family that was forced off of an overnight flight from Maui to California posted video that saw the crew say agents would put the parents in jail and place their children in foster care. The airline is offering compensation and an apology to Brian Schear and his family after Schear posted an 8-minute video on YouTube Wednesday.

Delta apologizes after family booted from flight

Delta Air Lines is offering refunds and compensation to a California family that says they were forced off a plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give up one of their seats on a crowded flight. A video of the April 23 incident was uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday and added to the list of recent encounters on airlines that have gone viral, including the dragging of a bloodied passenger off a United Express plane.

Family booted from Delta flight and threatened with jail after…

A Southern California father said he and his family were booted from a Delta flight after they declined to give up a seat they had bought for their teenage son and were attempting to use for his 2-year-old sibling. Brian and Brittany Schear, of Huntington Beach, were on a red-eye flight April 23 from Maui to Los Angeles when they got into an argument with officials after being told that they had to give the seat to another passenger.

American Eagle plane makes emergency landing at DuPage Airport

A plane operating under the regional branch of American Airlines has made an emergency landing at DuPage Airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit. FAA officials say the flight departed Chicago O'Hare International Airport at 9 a.m. bound for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and landed 15 minutes later "without incident" about 25 miles west at DuPage Airport in West Chicago.

Good Samaritan dragged plane crash survivor away from the wreckage

A 21-year-old survivor of a small plane that crashed in Connecticut Monday was dragged away from the fiery scene by a Good Samaritan, according to a witness. Meriden resident Dan Mercurio was on the scene in Wallingford when he saw several Good Samaritans run toward the wreckage, ABC New Haven affiliate WTNH reported.

One person was killed in a helicopter crash Friday in Darlington County.

DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC A pilot was killed after a helicopter crashed in a Darlington County field Friday evening, according to Kathleen Bergen with the Federal Aviation Administration. Bergen said via email the 47G helicopter struck some trees before crashing in the field around 5 p.m. She added the pilot was the only one onboard.