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A pilot circled north Mississippi with a stolen airplane and threatened to crash into a Walmart according to police

Authorities say a man who stole a plane and flew it over Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart store faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats. Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka says 29-year-old Cory Wayne Patterson didn’t have a pilot’s license but had some flight instruction and was an employee of Tupelo Aviation. Patterson could also...

Darren Harrison told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie that he had to act quickly when the pilot of his small plane fell unconscious.

Robert Morgan is being praised as a hero after he helped Darren Harrison — a passenger with no flying experience — land a plane in Florida when the pilot suffered a medical emergency midair.

Alaska Airlines canceled dozens of U.S. West Coast flights Friday as off-duty pilots picketed in several major cities over an impasse in nearly three years of contract negotiations.

A hot air balloon pilot died after he fell from it on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont Thursday. Four passengers survived.

Bay Area start-ups Xwing and Reliable Robotics are trying to revolutionize aviation with pilotless planes.

TJ Kim, a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia, has turned his flying lessons into a lifesaving mission by delivering medial supplies to rural hospitals in Virginia battling the coronavirus pandemic.

Heavy snow across New England caused school closings and cancellations while hampering driving conditions.

The first widespread snowstorm of the season socked New England Monday, causing chaos on the roads, knocking out power for thousands and closing many schools — all ahead of a second round of snow that could outdo the first in some areas. Several inches of wet snow dropped on parts of the region.

Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...

Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on a deadly plane crash earlier this month in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Paul Vidal of Westport, the pilot and sole occupant of the Cessna 150, was killed in the Nov. 4 crash at New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery. The plane nosedived, according to cellphone videos captured by eyewitnesses, and the force...

After making the big announcement in a gender reveal party, the pilot of a crop duster stalls his aircraft and crashes in a field.

Federal investigators probing the deadly small plane crash into a New Bedford, Massachusetts, cemetery are collecting debris along with maintenance records, witness statements and more.

The cause of Monday’s deadly small plane crash in a Massachusetts cemetery remains unknown, but federal transportation safety investigators said Tuesday that they’ll be spending two days on the ground looking into it. The pilot and sole occupant of the Cessna 150 was killed in the crash at New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery.

A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines by a flight attendant alleges pilots on a 2017 flight had an iPad streaming video from a hidden camera in a bathroom in one of the airline’s jets.

Aaron Paul’s character in the popular series “Breaking Bad” was supposed to get killed off at the end of the first season. But producers had a change of heart after witnessing the strong chemistry between his Jesse Pinkman character and Bryan Cranston’s Walter White in a pilot. The decision to keep the story revolved around the duo for five seasons...

Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got...

Seven people were killed after a vintage plane crashed at Bradley International Airport.