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Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington  —  Southwest Airlines’ newest jets are now flying with a barrier that can protect the cockpit when pilots need to open the door during flight, according to the airline. The company’s first Boeing 737 equipped with the retractable barrier entered service in time for the Labor Day weekend, making it one of the first US …

Air travel safety Airplane crashes Aviation news Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link One person was killed and three others injured after two small planes collided in midair by the Fort Morgan Municipal Airport in northeast Colorado, authorities said. A Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 collided while both pilots were attempting to land on Sunday …

FORT MORGAN, Colo. (KKTV) – One person is dead after a plane crash in northern Colorado. The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to the Fort Morgan Municipal Airport at 10:44 Sunday morning. When they got there, they said they learned a small Cessna was on a final approach to the airport when it was hit by a …

One person died and three were injured Sunday morning after two planes collided midair at Fort Morgan Municipal Airport. A Cessna 172 and an Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 were both trying to land at the Fort Morgan airport when they crashed and caught fire at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday, according to an emailed statement from the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency …

Boeing in Talks to Sell as Many as 500 Planes to China  Bloomberg.com Boeing eyes sale of up to 500 planes to China: report  Fox Business Boeing in Talks to Sell China Hundreds of Planes as Part of U.S. Trade Deal  The Wall Street Journal Boeing (BA) Stock Is Up, What You Need To Know  Yahoo Finance Boeing in talks to sell up to …

U.S. says NORAD intercepted Chinese, Russian bombers operating together U.S. says NORAD intercepted Chinese, Russian bombers operating together 00:20 Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a civilian plane Sunday after it entered restricted airspace over President Trump’s property in Bedminster, New Jersey, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, one of seven aircraft to violate the airspace over the weekend. …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington, DC  —  The National Transportation Safety Board questioned witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of the investigation into January’s deadly midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was the second of three days of investigative hearings into what happened in the accident that killed 67 people. That night, the …

Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary Horizon Air requested a ground stop to all flights Sunday night due to a computer system outage. The request to federal authorities kept Alaska and Horizon flights out of the air until the FAA said the stop was lifted after 2 a.m. ET. Monday. In a statement earlier, Alaska said the outage involved its …

Alaska Airlines Grounds Entire Fleet of Planes  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, …