Plane News
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Los Angeles -
Hollywood star Harrison Ford was injured when the small plane he was flying suffered engine failure and crash-landed on a golf course outside Los Angeles, officials said.
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A man has suffered severe pain, nausea and hallucinations after being stung by a venomous scorpion that made it on to a flight in South America. The species is believed to have been deadly.
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Taipei -
Flags across Taiwan flew at half mast on Tuesday to pay homage to the 40 people killed in a TransAsia plane crash last week, as divers battled cold weather to find the last three people missing.
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Santiago -
Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board.
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Taipei -
TransAsia Airways cancelled dozens of flights on Saturday, the first day of a pilot retraining programme, as rescuers retrieved four more bodies from its second deadly crash in Taiwan in seven months.
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Taipei -
One engine failed on the TransAsia plane that crashed in Taiwan this week with the loss of at least 35 lives, and the pilots may have inexplicably shut down the other, investigators and experts said Friday.
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Taipei -
The pilot of the crashed TransAsia plane was still clutching the joystick when his body was found in the cockpit, after he battled to avoid populated areas, reports said Friday as the airline faced sanctions over its second fatal accident.
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Taipei -
Taiwan rescuers scoured a river for 12 people still missing from a TransAsia plane crash Thursday, as the pilot, who died in the crash, was hailed a hero for apparently battling to avoid hitting built-up areas.
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Taipei -
A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river outside the capital Taipei Wednesday -- the airline's second fatal crash in seven months.
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Taipei -
Rescuers scrambled to reach around 30 people trapped in the wreckage of a passenger plane which clipped a road bridge and plunged into a river outside Taiwan's capital on Wednesday, leaving at least 11 feared dead.
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A new initiative aims to equip all commercial flights worldwide with technology that would enable minute-by-minute tracking of the plane in times of distress, aiding rescuers and recovery efforts.
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Hacking group Lizard Squad took control of the Malaysia Airlines website homepage for a while earlier today, replacing it with a high-profile mocking of the disasters that have struck the troubled company in the past year.
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Jakarta -
An air force plane Tuesday spotted a "shadow" on the seabed believed to be the missing AirAsia jet, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief said."God blessed us today," Bambang Soelistyo told a press conference.
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A new superplane, which can get you anywhere in the world in four hours, may get its first flight in only five years from now. It is planned to use its rockets for commercial airline flights, as well as space travel.
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Three passengers are confirmed dead after a small jet crashed into a Maryland residence on Monday. A possible fourth passenger has yet to be accounted for.
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Chicago -
On Thursday, a plane was filmed landing in fierce winds at O'Hare airport in Chicago. The footage shows the plane nearly landing sideways.
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Newman -
A man in Australia has been charged by police after he drove a light plane down the street and then parked it at a pub while he went to have a beer inside.
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Moscow -
Pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine said on Tuesday they did not have the capability to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after Dutch investigators said it was hit by numerous "high-energy objects".
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Tehran -
A charter plane carrying 100 people, including Americans, out of Afghanistan was ordered to land in southern Iran because of errors in its flight plan, a Tehran-based official said Saturday.
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Port Antonio -
The US military was searching Saturday for a plane carrying three people that crashed off the coast of Jamaica in an incident that prompted rare coordination between Cuba and the United States.
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Washington -
A charter plane carrying about 100 people including Americans was briefly diverted to Iran during a flight from Bagram air base in Afghanistan, US officials said Friday.
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According to officials, a private U.S. plane that took off from the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York this morning has crashed into the ocean off Jamaica. There was no immediate information about the people on board.
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A Ukranian fighter jet tumbled to earth in a fireball Thursday after it was blasted out of the air while flying low over rebel-held territory in the east of the country.
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Washington -
A plane carrying a US aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus arrived at an air force base in Georgia on Saturday, local television network WSB TV reported.
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Paris -
The apparent downing of a Malaysian passenger jet and the loss of nearly 300 lives could be a game changer in the Ukraine crisis, piling pressure on key players, Russia foremost.
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Washington, D. C. -
US military officials were pleased Monday to announce that the most expensive weapon ever built, the new F-35 war plane, has been cleared to fly again, although with limitations.
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Kiev -
Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents -- most of them hastily removed -- suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner.
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A military research team in the UK has released plans for a three-part plane which can detach into faster planes then reform when the enemy has been shaken off. The concept so far looks quite impressive.
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Cheyenne -
A manager at a Domino's Pizza in Cheyenne, Wyoming, received an order from a Frontier Airlines pilot, who wanted to feed passengers that were stuck on a delayed plane.
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Alberton -
The last of three Boeing 737 fuselages that toppled into a Montana river after a train derailment was expected to be recovered Tuesday.
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Plane Image
IDF's F-15 Takeoff in Hatzerim Base IDF
The Piaggio Albatross an ex-SAAF Maritime Patrol aircraft has recently been restored to flying condition.
Ashley Battles wing walking on the wing of an airplane during the Altus Air Force Base Wings of Freedom Open House and Air Show DVIDSHUB
Cessna plane crashes into Arizona High School Screen shot
A photo of Chicago from a plane, on Tuesday January 7, 2014 Credit: Hank Cain
Lizard Squad attacked the Malaysia Airlines website, replacing the homepage. TechCrunch
File photo: F16 fighter jet John P. Rohrer / USAF
A historic De Havilland Tiger Moth biplane on the outward leg of the Silver Queen Rally.
A Ryanair plane. (With pilots I hope) Wikicommons
The revolutionary new Sabre engine Reaction Engines
United Express- Colgan Air
A light aircraft like this Piper Saratoga made an emergency landing near Bloemfontein. flickr/Eric Harmatz
Hispano Aviación HA-200 "Saeta" César Astudillo
A P166S Albatross taking off. This plane served as a Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
Piaggio P 166S Albatross of 27 Squadron, SAAF.
A plane facing heavy snow at Heathrow Esthr
A single engine plane flown by a student pilot makes a crash landing after a wheel fell of the plane mid flight. Screen Capture
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