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A plane was forced to stop on the taxiway due to a stubborn visitor. The pilot called the air traffic control tower to report that the pelican would not move.

There’s another use for cooking oil and other byproducts from forestry and farming: powering jets. Airbus wants all its planes running on sustainable jet fuel by the end of the decade, and the fuel is much better for the environment than kerosene, says Amanda Simpson, vice president of research and technology at Airbus Americas.

A plane briefly left the runway at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Friday night as winter weather hit parts of the southeast, officials said.

19-year-old Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly across the world in a solo microlight plane.

Watch bodycam video of a pilot being pulled from a crashed airplane seconds before it is hit by a train.

A Michigan schoolteacher who tested positive for COVID-19 in the middle of a flight to Iceland a few days before Christmas says she ended up voluntarily isolated in the plane’s cramped bathroom for the last five hours of the trip to Reykjavik.

Let’s face it. Flying usually sucks. Air travel is also contributing to climate change in a pretty significant way. And that sucks for us and the planet. But what if it didn’t? I could tell the flight I was on was a bit different. First, the flight attendants were using real glassware in coach. And second, their boss, United...

An aircraft departing Houston Executive Airport crashed shortly after taking off on Tuesday. All 21 people onboard escaped serious injury.

An airplane made an emergency landing Tuesday on a highway in San Diego’s North County, causing traffic for motorists confused and stunned by the unexpected appearance.

The reconstructed wreckage from the plane crash that killed 230 people in 1996 served for decades as an important teaching tool for crash investigators

The man who tried to breach the cockpit of a United Express flight Friday night and then proceeded to jump off the plane after being unsuccessful will face federal charges.

A man tried to reach the cockpit of a United Express flight Friday night and after being unsuccessful, he opened the cabin door and fled the aircraft via the emergency slide at LAX, a law enforcement source tells NBC.

Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labor on a flight from her home in Utah to Honolulu last week

A woman has unexpectedly given birth on an hourslong flight from Utah to Hawaii with the help of multiple medical experts who were in the right place at the right time.

A Crimean powerlifter pulled a 35 ton amphibian aircraft more than three-and-a-half feet.

Indonesian navy divers continue to search for the black boxes of an Sriwijaya Air jet in the Java Sea

In addition to a wide variety of airplanes to pilot, the new Microsoft Flight Simulator offers what is generally agreed to be the most realistic and complete digital representation of the world that has ever been made available to the public, NBC News reports. It includes 1.5 billion rendered buildings and enough data to fill 1.7 million DVDs. For digital...

An Iranian official is quoted as saying that some data, including a portion of the cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from the Ukrainian jetliner downed by Iranian forces in January

A formation of six F16C/D Fighting Falcons performed flyovers above Los Angeles and San Diego Friday in a tribute to hospital workers, first responders and others on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. See photos of the U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Cory W. Bush, and video from inside the cockpit.