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Police are praising the heroic actions of a local pilot who confronted and stopped a 15-year-old who entered Texarkana Regional Airport in Arkansas on Tuesday, brandishing guns and demanding a plane.

A retired Army helicopter pilot shared insights into what may have caused Wednesday’s deadly midair collision over the Potomac River in Washington, DC — ranging from visibility challenges to ...

OHIO — The Ohio State Highway Patrol launched a pilot program for an oral marijuana test to help get impaired drivers off the road. As reported on News Center 7 at 5:30, troopers will swab for ...

A flight passenger has gone viral on social media after sharing a video of an American Airlines pilot's thoughtful announcement last week aboard flight AA1044 from Jacksonville to Miami.

But in the final moments of the flight, air traffic control asked the pilot to land on a separate, intersecting runway. By Kate Kelly and Emily Steel Shortly before an American Airlines regional ...

It would also include comets and asteroids, and by now you can see that this may be too broad a definition. Perhaps a more modern take is called for. But that’s fraught with trouble, too.

"I was so proud when Sam became a pilot," he said. "Now it hurts so bad I can’t even cry myself to sleep." "I know I’ll see him again but my heart is breaking," the dad wrote. "He was doing ...

In a viral TikTok, one American Airlines pilot tells his passengers that he has "no higher calling" than safely getting them to their destination Less than 24 hours after American Airlines Flight ...

Sam Lilley, the pilot on the American Airlines flight that tragically crashed in Washington D.C., was going to achieve a major life milestone later this year. Sam’s dad, Tim Lilley, took to ...

Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines spokesperson Eric Apolonio said that the pilot of the helicopter was the lone fatality. “Isa po ang laman or 'yung pilot in command lang. It was a ...

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