Federal Aviation Administration News

South Bend - Investigators are working to figure out what caused a private jet to slam into three homes in northern Indiana Sunday, killing two people on board, including legendary University of Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis.

Hallandale - Authorities have launched an investigation regarding a plummeting airplane door. The plane lost its door when flying over a Florida golf course.

It's an 80th birthday she'll likely never forget. An elderly woman was left hanging on for dear life after a skydiving instructor pushed her out of a plane allegedly before her harness was secured.

Washington - A standoff between Senior House Republicans and Senate Democrats has been hamstringing the F.A.A. since July 23, costing the government millions in airline-ticket tax revenue, idling 4.000 workers, and making air travel more dangerous.

Houston - Southwest Airlines has suspended a pilot after his vulgar rant was picked up and broadcast on an air-traffic control frequency available to many pilots, as well controllers, who tried repeatedly to end the foul-mouth fly-by without any success.

Washington - After a recent series of events involving sleeping air traffic controllers, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) submitted his resignation on Thursday morning, accepted by the FAA’s administrator.

"It's hard to draw a surfer's attention away from the next wave, but whatever was in the southwest sky Friday evening around 6:20 p.m. drew a crowd along Kewalo Basin and Ala Moana Beach Park.