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San Francisco >> Federal aviation investigators released stunning San Francisco International Airport footage and data Wednesday showing an Air Canada plane came within as close as about five feet of striking a Philippine Air jet lined up on a taxiway last July. The National Transportation Safety Board also issued hundreds of pages of factual findings on the July 7 incident where the Air Canada jet narrowly missed landing on a crowded taxiway filled with four passenger jets.
Photo by Lori Comstock/New Jersey Herald - Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration greet officers with the New Jersey Park Police off Airport Road at the entrance of the former Jungle Habitat in West Milford. Officials were investigating a single-engine airplane crash that occurred after a takeoff from the nearby Greenwood Lake Airport.
There are no confirmed survivors after a military plane crashed on GA-21 at Gulfstream Road in Port Wentworth. GA. The plane was carrying at least 5 people on board.
A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago's Midway Airport to Newark was diverted to Cleveland Wednesday after a mid-flight window crack, according to officials and flight passengers, just two weeks after the deadly engine explosion on another Southwest jet. Southwest said in a statement that Flight 957 was diverted for a "maintenance review of a potential crack to the outer pane of a window."
An U.S. military plane on Wednesday crashed in southern state Georgia, killing at least two people, according to local officials. The incident, which involved a WC-130 Hercules airplane from the Air National Guard, took place just before noon local time near the city of Savannah, local firefighters said.
WATCH LIVE: Click here if the livestream does not load. PORT WENTWORTH, GA - There are no confirmed survivors after a military plane crashed on GA-21 at Gulfstream Road in Port Wentworth.
The Federal Aviation Administration tells news outlets the plane landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday around 10 p.m. The FAA says the Airbus A333 was more than an hour into its flight when it turned back near Virginia's coast.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see first-hand, what happens during an airport emergency? Now's your chance and you can even be a part of it. The Midland International Air and Space Port and the City of Midland are teaming up to perform an emergency response drill.
The U.S. House has approved legislation designating a large aircraft hangar in Fort Wayne as the site of a proposed National Airmail Museum. The legislation the U.S. House approved Thursday reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration for six years, but it also includes a provision from Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana that designates the hangar at Fort Wayne's Smith Field as the National Airmail Museum.
Vicki Weger is trying to keep her Vigo County Council District 3 seat for the next four years, while political newcomers Michael Esau and David Hoopingarner are the Democrats challenging for the seat. "She was the only woman on the council," Weger said of Miller.
The U.S. House has approved a measure requiring medical checks for commercial hot air balloon pilots in an effort to avoid a reoccurrence of a 2016 crash that killed 16 people in Texas. The House voted Friday on a wide-ranging Federal Aviation Administration bill that includes a provision requiring medical checks similar to those required for helicopter and airline pilots.
The safety of helicopter ambulances is under scrutiny after three crew members were killed in a crash in a wooded area of northern Wisconsin this week. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, and the cause of the crash Thursday is not yet known.
The FAA has extended an AML for CiES Inc. fuel quantity to Piper PA 46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix - Cessna 190/195 Businessliner, 337 Skymaster, TTx/Columbia - Socata TB Series Trinidad, Tobago, Tampico - Rockwell Commander Series 112, 114 - Grumman American AA-5 Series Traveler, Cheetah, Tiger. CiES Inc produces technology for measuring fuel quantity in aircraft.
A crowd of around 120 concerned residents gathered in the multipurpose room of Gregory Heights Elementary School on Tuesday night, April 24, to hear updates from the Quiet Skies Coalition on airplane noise, fighting the FAA, the Port of Seattle and more. Moderated by 2017 Burien 'Citizen of the Year' Larry Cripe - a retired Alaska Airlines pilot - the evening started with an overview about the Quiet Skies Coalition's latest efforts to stop the FAA from turning noisy turboprop airplanes over Burien ; how "phenomenol" the group's relationship with Burien City Manager Brian Wilson and Attorney Lisa Marshall have become, and expanding the group's fight to more strongly target the Port and Alaska Airlines.
Breaking news: Rep. Bill Shuster has introduced a "manager's amendment" to H.R. 4, a bill meant to provide long-term FAA funding. The amendment would remove the U.S. ATC system from the FAA and allow it to be run by a board where the airlines will have unparalleled control.