Rogers Worthington

Airline pilots should barricade themselves inside the cockpit at the first hint of a security threat and fly toward the nearest airport, leaving flight attendants trained in self-defense and armed...

President Bush is expected to announce in Chicago Thursday an anti-terrorism package that calls for heavily armed National Guard soldiers patrolling the nation's airports, thousands of federal air marshals guarding...

Gone, for now, is the chatter within flight crews about weather, flight paths and what to do once they reach their destination. Thanks to the events of Sept. 11, pilots...

Putting more federal air marshals on planes, as President Bush has vowed to do, may help calm jittery American travelers, but security experts say an expanded program must be adapted...

Attempting to reassure airline passengers and flight crews that security gaps at the nation's airports are being addressed, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday hundreds of thousands of airport workers...

As the Federal Aviation Administration for the first time prepared to impose tougher standards on the companies hired by the airlines to screen passengers and baggage, some members of Congress...

As the nation struggles to regain some sense of normal daily life, one of the most visible obstacles is the empty airport on the Virginia bank of the Potomac River,...