But for a brief three months last summer, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed ...

Of course, the devil is in the details, and what the Federal Aviation Administration appears to give with one hand, it takes away with the other. The rule changes, announced on December 28 ...

Lawmakers who want tougher standards for evacuating aircraft in an emergency have criticized the Federal Aviation ...

Jun. 7—BLUEFIELD — Mercer County's airport is among the airports across the state that will be receiving Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funding for their modernization efforts, U.S. Sen.

John Lassiter Jr., 75 was piloting a single-engine Zenith 601XL when it crash-landed off of Mount Olive Drive in Albertville.

The erratic flight path directly over the nation’s capital prompted the military to scramble fighter jets, causing a sonic ...

The Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, headed for Long Island's MacArthur Airport. Once over Long Island, ...

The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, ...

The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed into a remote part of Virginia on Sunday appeared to be ...

WASHINGTON (CBS) -- U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) are asking the Federal Aviation Administration to study whether seats on airplanes are too small.

Decades-old federal rules require that planes be designed so that passengers can escape the cabin within 90 seconds in case of fire or some other emergency, even with half the exits blocked.