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FAA to Fine American Airlines Record $25 Million for MD-80 Maintenance Problems
FAA officials are preparing to penalize American Airlines over wiring issues that forced the carrier to temporarily ground its entire fleet of MD-80 jets in 2008.
Total Turbulence Helps Guide Flights To Smoother Skies
Real-time turbulence reports are now crowdsourced directly from flights en route. However, it's the planes -- not the passengers -- doing the talking.
Video: On Board the US Air Force Doomsday Plane
Diane Sawyer gets an unprecedented look inside the E-4B Nightwatch, aka the Doomsday Plane, the 747 built to keep the nation's command and control structure operational from the air if ground bases are rendered useless by a nuc...
On This Day in Aviation History: January 7th
China resumes flights to and from the US in 1981, Hubert Latham sets a new altitude record, speed records in American coast-to-coast and Australia-New Zealand, the first flight over the English Channel takes place in a balloon ...
Southwest Airlines Jet Skids Off Runway in Chicago
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded off a runway after landing at Chicago's Midway Airport, Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured.