The licences of the two airline pilots have been suspended after the incident in which they not only overflew their destination – the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport – a week ago but also was out of contact with the air traffic control (ATC) for about 80 minutes in spite of repeated calls from the ATC tower.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating possible malfunctions of the airspeed sensor and altitude sensor on board Airbus A330 aircraft, the same type of plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009.

Air France’s Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, 2009, might have flown into updrafts that shook the plane and also into lightning, which together contributed in knocking the plane out of the sky, according to aviation experts.

There was a rise in the number of deaths in the United States in 2008 from crashes of charter flights that include medical helicopters, air taxis and tour flights.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed to keep information about bird strikes secret.

The agency that investigates air accidents in the United States has warned that there is “a high probability” of the fault which led to the crashlanding of two Boeing 777s in 2008 happening to other aircraft.

  Relatives of a woman who was killed, along with 48 other people, when a commuter plane of Continental Airlines crashed into a suburb in Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009, have filed a lawsuit against the airline and the manufacturer of the plane.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has proposed 10 rules for news gathering helicopters.

It has been revealed that the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had ordered stringent inspection of the type of engines on the US Airways plane that splash-landed in New York's Hudson River after a few of those engines were found to have a rare kind of stall problem known as "compression stall."

Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Commercial aviation pilot as national hero after successful landing of US Airways flight in Hudson River after losing both engines

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ordered that some Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines be inspected after a Pratt PW2037 engine on a Delta Air Lines jet failed during takeoff in Las Vegas, the United States, on August 6, 2008.

Update: It has been confirmed that the small plane found wrecked in the area near Mammoth Lakes, California -- where a hiker found Steve Fossett's identification and a sweatshirt -- is indeed Steve Fossett's Bellanca Super Decathlon airplane. Initial information coming to us indicate that the Bellanca Decathlon flew into the ...

We heard almost 6 hours back that a hiker found some money and identification which, it turns out, belonged to the millionnaire aviator Steve Fossett who vanished in September 2007. Now we are hearing initial reports that the crash wreckage of Fossett's plane has been found. Update: Wreck confirmed as Fossett's Bellanca

Two airplanes scheduled to land on the Greek island of Lesbos were forced to circle above the Aegean Sea for about 40 minutes because an air traffic controller fell asleep.

Investigators in Spain are trying to find out whether the Spanair’s MD-82 plane that crashed last week had gained adequate speed for takeoff and also whether the ill-fated aircraft’s flaps operated properly.