Matters Historical: ‘One-in-a-million shot’ saves plane, passengers after Bay...
(If you’re having trouble viewing this gallery or video on a mobile device, click here.) Japan Airlines Flight 2, a DC-8 passenger liner that originated in Tokyo bound for New York via Honolulu and...
View ArticleAnother runway near-miss? Atlanta-bound plane nearly lands on occupied...
ATLANTA — Four months after a passenger jet nearly landed on a crowded SFO taxiway prompting international shockwaves, federal investigators are probing a frighteningly similar incident at an airport...
View ArticleFollowing SFO runway close calls, Bay Area congressman wants pilot...
SAN FRANCISCO — After two San Francisco airport close calls earlier this year and yet another plane nearly landing on an occupied taxiway last month in Atlanta, investigators now say the pilot...
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Source: FAA inspectors barred from reviewing ‘critical’ evidence in Horizon...
This article has been amended from an earlier version to add comments from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the allegations against John Duncan and a change in the allegations from the...
View ArticleFAA denies official blocked cockpit recorder review in plane mishap
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a strong denial Monday to a report that the agency’s head of flight standards, John Duncan, ordered investigators to not listen to the cockpit voice recorder...
View ArticleCHP: Pilot flies beneath overpass in ‘miracle’ emergency landing onto...
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. COSTA MESA – A 24-year-old pilot made a split-second decision to fly beneath...
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3 dead, 2 injured after helicopter crashes into California home
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. NEWPORT BEACH – Three people were killed and two injured Tuesday afternoon...
View ArticleExclusive: Video shows taxiway landing; NTSB changes course, will probe...
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the video on your mobile device. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday announced it has changed course and will now investigate an incident...
View ArticleHelicopter didn’t send distress signal before crashing into California home,...
NEWPORT BEACH – A helicopter traveling to Catalina Island did not send a distress signal shortly after take-off from John Wayne Airport before slamming up against a Newport beach home Tuesday, Jan. 30,...
View ArticleJoby Aviation hiring 100 more engineers to win ‘air taxi’ race
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. SANTA CRUZ – With competitors nipping at his heels, inventor JoeBen Bevirt...
View ArticleTwo malfunctions in a week: Spirit Airlines plane grounded after...
East Bay resident Josh Puga was returning from spending Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas when his Spirit Airlines flight suddenly started rattling and shaking violently, with a smell of burnt rubber,...
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3 adults, 1 child dead after plane goes down in Los Angeles County
Four people died in a private airplane crash along Briggs Road in Agua Dulce on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (Courtesy, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Four people are confirmed dead after a...
View ArticleSmoke in San Jose-bound Southwest jet prompts emergency evacuation in Orange...
SANTA ANA – A Southwest flight carrying 139 passengers and five crew members was evacuated Monday night, Feb. 12, just before takeoff at John Wayne Airport after smoke appeared in the cabin, an airport...
View ArticleCongressman calls for probe into SFO close-calls, study on aviation trends
The run of close-calls at San Francisco International Airport and other airports across the country involving runway or taxiway incursions have prompted Congressman Mark DeSaulnier and two other...
View Article‘Pretty scary thought’: SFO close-calls discussed in Congressional aviation...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With runway incursions up almost 83 percent from 2011 to 2017, a high-ranking federal aviation inspector told a congressional hearing Tuesday that such incidents, including several...
View ArticleEditorial: Five SFO near-misses in 14 months require action
If the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board don’t take action, hundreds of people are going to die on the runway of a U.S. airport. It’s just a matter of time before...
View ArticleWhy is Paul Allen building the world’s largest airplane? Perhaps to launch a...
By Christian Davenport | The Washington Post A massive airplane being built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved a step closer to flight last week, when it crept out of its hangar in Mojave,...
View ArticleWrong radio frequency. Wrong runway. FAA releases findings of SFO close-call...
SAN FRANCISCO — Following more than a year of close-call runway mishaps at San Francisco International Airport, the FAA has determined most were caused by pilot errors, including one potentially...
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5 feet?! Shocking SFO video, data reveal Air Canada plane came perilously...
(Click here, if you are unable to view this video on your mobile device.) SAN FRANCISCO — Federal aviation investigators released stunning video footage and data Wednesday showing the near-disastrous...
View ArticleAviation experts’ theory: MH370 crash was a murder-suicide
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. | Washington Post All but one of the 239 people on the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had probably been unconscious – incapacitated by the sudden depressurization of the...
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