Starship, — the huge spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — failed during its latest test flight on Thursday when its upper stage exploded in space, raining debris and disrupting air traffic at airports from Florida to Pennsylvania. It was the second consecutive test flight of the most powerful … Read more
A small medical plane carrying six people crashed near a shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night, apparently leaving no survivors and sending a large fireball into the air that engulfed vehicles and homes in flames, the authorities said. The Learjet 55 was transporting a young female patient from Philadelphia, where she had been … Read more
A firetruck heads toward the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport after an air crash in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP A passenger jet collided Wednesday (January 29, 2025) with a military helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby … Read more
DALLAS: Boeing is asking federal regulators to exempt a new model of its 737 Max airliner from a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight. Federal officials said last year that Boeing was working to fix the hazard on current Max planes. In the meantime, … Read more
File photo of Phillip Washington, the nominee to become administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is withdrawing his nomination after Republican criticism that he was not qualified to serve as the top aviation regulator, sources familiar with the matter … Read more
CNN — Snow, rain, ice, wind and frigid temperatures are disrupting air travel plans across the United States as well as bus and Amtrak passenger train service. Airlines canceled just over 2,270 US flights by 6 ET p.m. Thursday and proactively canceled almost 1,000 flights for Friday, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Eighty-five … Read more
The future of Boeing Co’s freshly approved 737 MAX is in the hands of nearly 700 workers toiling behind the gray doors of a three-bay hangar at a desert airport in Washington state. Inside, over an endless 24-hour loop, 737 MAX planes are rolled in for maintenance, and upgrades of software and systems as mandated … Read more
Boeing Co said Tuesday it has discovered a new manufacturing issue with its 787 Dreamliner, days after it reported two separate issues that forced the grounding of eight 787 airplanes. The U.S. planemaker said during fabrication of the 787 horizontal stabilizer it learned some components were clamped with greater force than specified, which could result … Read more