Federal Aviation Administration News

Three people were killed Saturday when a vintage helicopter hit power lines, crashed and caught fire in San Bernardino County.

A passenger in silhouette watches an Air France aircraft at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport September 25, 2002 in Roissy, France.

Atlanta Forward / The Editorial Board's View: It 's in everyone's best interest if an agreement on a new lease is OK'd by City Council before Mayor Franklin leaves office at year's end.

Tom Poberezny appeared with AOPA's Craig Fuller during the AOPA Summit Thursday.

An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy Airport.

Administrators at Missoula International Airport plan to start building a new control tower as early as this spring.

With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over the Pacific.

Senior Safety Investigator Brian Rayner of the National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation of the plane crash Wednesday night that killed both passengers.

An amazing story from the White Mountains area.A Imagine you're flying two miles above the Earth when you smash into a bird that shatters your plane's windshield and leaves you bloodied.

WHAT: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa will be joined by officials from City Council, federal aviation, and City fire and airport departments to break ground on a new replacement Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting facility at Los Angeles International Airport .

Authorities say a medical helicopter has crashed on Arizona's San Carlos Indian reservation during a training flight and both people aboard are seriously injured.

Testimony By AIA Before The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Aviation Subcommittee The FAA should adopt the recommendations in RTCA's Task Force Report and immediately integrate them into FAA's NextGen Implementation Plan, said Neil Planzer, vice president of Strategy for Air Traffic Management at the Boeing Company.

The Federal Aviation Administration has determined a runway incursion at Los Angeles International Airport last week was minor.

Mercer County Airport Manager, Randall Earnest, said crews are almost finished extending the airport's runway by 300 feet.

The following editorial first appeared in the Miami Herald: To the many woes plaguing airline passengers - smaller seats, higher ticket prices, fewer flights, etc.

A Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter that collided mid-air "burst into a fireball," according to Marines on at least one chopper that witnessed the crash.

In a first for a dedicated Helicopter Emergency Medical Service provider , Arkansas Children's Hospital received FAA approval for their HFDM/FOQA program.

The FAA's New York Center submits a "formal accident package" of evidence relating to the 9/11 attacks to FAA headquarters in Washington, DC, but a manager at the center deliberately excludes from it an audio tape on which several air traffic controllers recalled their experiences with the hijacked aircraft.

U.S. taxpayer funds earmarked for "low priority" airports favor politics over practicality, Oklahoma Sen.

Miami International Airport has begun operating with Sensis Corporation's Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X . The ground surveillance system provides air traffic controllers with increased situational awareness of surface operations and runway incursion detection and alerting.