Bombardier has halted the C-Series flight test program after one of the test aircraft experienced an uncontained engine failure while undergoing maintenance tests.
Continental/Colgan Flight 3407 crashes in upstate New York, an Iran Air Tu-154 crashes into a mountain, United's Ted low cost subsidiary begins operations, an Air Rhodesia flight is shot down in South Africa and more...
Allegiant Air says it will invest $50 million to add 16 seats to each of its MD-88 aircraft, bringing the seating capacity of these planes up to 166 from 150.
A collection of this week's aviation news and odd happenings, including an A380 delivery, passenger escaping from aircraft, Midwest's last flight, an IL-76 crash, animals attacking airplanes, a man being denied first class upgr...