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December 06, 2018

The Latest: President lauds rescue efforts after Japan crash

The Latest on the midair collision of two U.S. warplanes off Japan (all times local): 2:50 a.m. Friday President Donald Trump ...

December 06, 2018

Report: Propeller blade broke, causing military plane crash

Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off ...

December 06, 2018

Search under way after US military planes collide off Japan

A search is under way for crew members from two Marine Corps planes involved in what the military called a "mishap" off the ...

November 30, 2018

Correction: Boeing Plane-Pilots story

In a story Nov. 29 about Southwest Airlines, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the carrier will give pilots more ...

November 29, 2018

Pentagon IDs remains of Tuskegee Airman killed in WWII

The remains of a New York pilot killed during World War II are the first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen listed as missing in ...

November 28, 2018

Pilots struggled to control plane that crashed in Indonesia

Black box data collected from their crashed Boeing 737 MAX 8 show Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control as the ...

November 19, 2018

3 killed when air ambulance crashes in North Dakota

An air ambulance on its way to pick up a patient crashed shortly after taking off in North Dakota, killing all three people ...

November 19, 2018

WWII pilot killed in vintage airplane crash in Texas

The 93-year-old passenger who was killed when a World War II-era fighter aircraft crashed in South Texas had been a WWII ...

November 18, 2018

2 dead in vintage World War II fighter crash after flyover

A privately-owned vintage World War II Mustang fighter airplane that had participated in a flyover for a museum event crashed ...

November 14, 2018

Pilots says Boeing didn't disclose jet's new control feature

Boeing didn't tell airline pilots about features of a new flight-control system in its 737 MAX that reportedly is a focus of ...

November 11, 2018

Report: Pilot error cause of deadly military plane crash

The cause of a military plane crash that left nine people dead outside Savannah, Georgia, was pilot error, according to a ...

November 10, 2018

Small plane crashes in Iowa, killing all 4 people on board

A small plane crashed in central Iowa, killing all four people on board, after the pilot apparently had a heart attack and ...

November 09, 2018

Jet overshoots runway in Guyana, several injured

A Fly Jamaica Boeing 757-200 aircraft overshot the runway at Guyana's main international airport early Friday, injuring ...

November 08, 2018

US emergency directive after Boeing jet crash in Indonesia

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency airworthiness directive on how to handle erroneous data from a ...

November 05, 2018

Officials consider role of speed readings in Lion Air crash

Indonesian officials are providing the strongest hints yet that a faulty airspeed indicator played a role in the deadly crash ...

November 05, 2018

Lion Air jet's airspeed indicator malfunctioned on 4 flights

The "black box" data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows its airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four ...

November 03, 2018

Official: Divers see Lion Air jet fuselage, new 'ping' heard

Divers reported seeing the fuselage and engines of the crashed Lion Air jet on the seafloor and a ping locator has detected ...

November 02, 2018

New details highlight Lion Air jet's problems before crash

New details about the crashed Lion Air jet's previous flight cast more doubt on the Indonesian airline's claim to have fixed ...

November 01, 2018

Divers recover jet flight recorder from Indonesia seafloor

Divers in Indonesia recovered one of the crashed Lion Air jet's flight recorders from the seafloor on Thursday, a crucial ...