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Young passengers who experienced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, during a flight on a FlyDubai plane, arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Pilot stabs fellow pilot on flight to Israel before passengers intervene to stop attack

September 30, 2026 at 9:16 p.m.

A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic...

FILE – A traveler with a smartphone walks past an air traffic control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Flights disrupted across the US Northeast due to technical problems at a key air traffic center

September 21, 2026 at 7:21 p.m.

Damaged communications lines at a key air traffic control facility in Philadelphia had been repaired, allowing airports across the U.S. Northeast to resume operations after hours of disruptions, the nation's...

Workers inspect an Amazon cargo plane two days after it overshot a runway at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A pilot of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off Miami runway warned it was coming in too fast

September 9, 2026 at 7:47 p.m.

For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going...

An NTSB investigator works near a damaged van at the site where an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway two days earlier while landing at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

All 5 killed in Miami cargo jet crash were in a van used by plane cleaners

September 8, 2026 at 5:16 p.m.

The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to get to planes to clean them,...

FILE – An Air Canada Jet sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport, Monday, March 23, 2026, after colliding with a Port Authority aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle after landing in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)

2 LaGuardia air traffic controllers left work an hour early before deadly crash, AP source says

August 29, 2026 at 4:23 p.m.

Because the two controllers left work early that night, there were only two people left in the tower to direct an unusual flurry of flights while dealing with an emergency...

Plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy fog in Alaska, killing all 8 aboard

August 21, 2026 at 3:44 p.m.

Investigators say eight people died when a small plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy fog at a remote military airport in Alaska.

FILE – An Omaha police car drives on Dec. 8, 2007, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Nebraska’s largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students

August 20, 2026 at 4:33 p.m.

Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to Chicago and 500 other US cities

August 19, 2026 at 12:45 p.m.

Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year.

FILE – American Airlines passenger planes are parked at Miami International Airport, in Miami on July 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Planes with same flight number avoid possible disaster thanks to quick-thinking controller

August 14, 2026 at 4:01 p.m.

A potential disaster was averted Friday when a Phoenix air traffic controller recognized two American Airlines jets mistakenly were flying the same flight number and acted quickly to avoid confusion...

FILE – The Ryanair desk is seen, Aug. 10, 2018, at the Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Investigators find bird remains inside Ryanair plane engine after passenger almost sucked out of shattered window

August 13, 2026 at 3:54 p.m.

Investigators say broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked into the hole in...

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