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A U.S. pilot ejected and suffered no serious injury from an F-35 fighter jet in Texas on Thursday during a strange, slow-motion crash that was captured in video widely shared across social media.  The F-35B, the Marine Corps’ version of the fifth-generation fighter jet, was slowly descending toward the runway at Naval Air Station Joint […]

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Boeing Co. to be arraigned on a felony charge stemming from crashes of two 737 Max jets, a ruling that threatens to unravel an agreement Boeing negotiated to avoid prosecution. The ruling by a judge in Texas came after relatives of some of the victims said the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials said Tuesday they will require charter airlines, air-tour operators and plane manufacturers to develop detailed systems for identifying potential safety problems before accidents occur. The Federal Aviation Administration said safety-management systems have made travel on large airlines safer since their adoption was required in 2018. “Expanding safety management systems to […]

DALLAS (AP) — Two historic military aircraft collided and crashed Saturday during an air show in Dallas, exploding into a ball of flames and sending black smoke billowing into the sky. It was not clear how many people were on board. Emergency crews raced to the crash scene at the Dallas Executive Airport, about 10 […]

While the Twin Towers burned in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington. The Pentagon is the center of military power in the United States.

Boeing said Thursday that production and delivery of a “significant number” of its 737 Max planes could be delayed because of questions about a supplier’s work on the fuselages. Boeing said the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a “non-standard manufacturing process” during installation of fittings near the rear of some 737s. Aircraft parts must be produced […]

Nearly three weeks after a deadly small plane crash in Percy Priest Lake, the National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report.

LONDON (AP) — British and German air force fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian aircraft flying close to Estonian airspace, the U.K. Defense Ministry said Wednesday, amid mounting concerns about confrontation in the skies near Russia and Ukraine. The U.K. and Germany are conducting joint air policing missions in Estonia as part of […]

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office reports a Knoxville man has died in a single-engine plane crash that was found by searchers in the Hinch Mountain Area on Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff’s office says Vasile Ghelan, 35, has been identified as the deceased pilot of the single-engine plane (tagline: #N26889). That […]

LAKE WORTH, Texas (AP) — A military training jet crashed Sunday in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. Both pilots managed to eject from the plane before it crashed in Lake Worth, which is just west of […]

video credit: Mary Ellen Rogers via Storyful Note: The spelling of the pilot’s first name has been corrected. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A pilot who circled his plane over north Mississippi for hours threatening to crash into a Walmart on Saturday morning landed in a bean field near Gravestown around 10 a.m. and was taken into […]