3 dead after plane crashes into car near Houston airport

A small plane that crashed into a car in a parking lot near a Houston airport is roped off on Thursday, June 9, 2016. The aircraft had been trying to land at Hobby Airport, in the southeastern part of the city, when it crashed less than a mile northwest of the airport, said Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Govt Shelves Proposal for Civil Aviation Authority

Virtually ruling out setting up of a Civil Aviation Authority to replace DGCA, Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today said that he saw no need to merely rename the regulator. The UPA government had proposed to replace Directorate General of Civil Aviation with Civil Aviation Authority having full functional and financial autonomy to give the regulator more teeth.

Ehang 184 taxi drone to undergo flight testing in the US

Ehang's 184 drone, shown here at CES earlier this year, will be flight tested in Nevada View gallery The idea of personalized air travel aboard autonomous flying taxis sounds like a pretty fanciful transport concept, but it started to get some serious traction when Ehang's 184 drone landed at CES earlier this year. Many questions remain over how the human-carrying aircraft would function in the real world, but at least some of these may soon be answered with the company winning governmental approval to test the vehicle in Nevada airspace.

FAA 14 CFR 139 Guidelines Integrated in Web-App to Provide Automated…

ProjectGrid.com 's iiCollectorTM web-app is an automated tool airport officials can use to manage daily self-inspection and overall airport operations. Recently presented at two industry conferences, this web-app was developed specifically to comply with FAA CFR 139 guidelines making it easier than ever for airports around the nation to begin using it to automate their daily inspections.

Union: New airport towers must be remodeled before opening

In this May 17, 2016, file photo, a plane lands at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Union officials says new, state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas need extensive remodeling so they can accommodate technology dating back more than half a century but still relied on by air traffic controllers.

Terror and trucking: Where the threats hide

Mineta Transportation Institute experts say threat level is low overall for now, but warn against complacency, especially for tanker and bus fleets. While surface transportation systems are becoming more "attractive" as targets for terrorists especially due to ever tighter airline security measures Mineta Transportation Institute experts believe the threat to trucking remains relatively low overall.

Tempers likely to soar in summer congressional session

Temperatures and tempers are likely to run hot as lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for an abbreviated 6-week summertime session featuring a handful of must-do legislation and the roll-out of a House GOP campaign agenda that's a priority for House Speaker Paul Ryan. The spring was a little bumpy for the Wisconsin Republican, yo-yoing between his role as the top elected Republican in the country in the era of Donald Trump and manager of the difficult-to-control House.

Union: No room for old technology in new airport towers

Union officials say new airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology that dates back to the early days of air traffic control. The towers were designed for equipment to electronically track planes, rather than using the historic system of passing paper strips from one controller to another to hand off responsibility for a plane.

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Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology that dates backs to the early days of air traffic control, according to union officials. The new rooms on top of the towers where controllers watch aircraft operations were designed for equipment that helps controllers track planes electronically.

Seaplane crash lands on Lake Monomonac, FAA investigating

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an experimental amphibious aircraft crash landed on Lake Monomonac in Rindge and flipped over. Authorities say the 57-year-old New Hampshire man who owned the seaplane and his 22-year-old passenger suffered only minor injuries when the aircraft crashed around 8:32 p.m. Tuesday.

Pilots pay tribute to comrade whose WWII plane crashed

" Air show pilots performed an aerial salute Saturday to their comrade who died after his World War II-era plane crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey a day earlier. The P-47 Thunderbolt crashed Friday night during a promotional flight for the American Airpower Museum on Long Island, which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the P-47 this weekend.

Pilots honor comrade whose WWII plane crashed

Air show pilots performed an aerial salute Saturday to their comrade who died after his World War II-era plane crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey a day earlier. The P-47 Thunderbolt crashed Friday night during a promotional flight for the American Airpower Museum on Long Island, which is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the P-47 this weekend.

The Latest: Divers recover body of 56-year-old man

The Latest on the crash of a small World War II-era plane in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey : New York City police say divers searching for the pilot of a small World War II-era plane that crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey have recovered the body of a 56-year-old man. Police say the body came from the one-seater P-47 Thunderbolt plane that went down Friday night but they are withholding the identity until the man's family has been notified.