NASA scientists learned Monday that Ingenuity’s first flight of just under 40 seconds was a success, marking the first powered, controlled flight on another planet in human history.
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A lawyer for relatives of people killed in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine told a court hearing Thursday that 290 relatives and partners of the victims have filed compensation claims for “emotional distress” against the four suspects charged in the downing.
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The low-cost Irish airline accuses the European Union of unfairly keeping struggling national airlines in business during the pandemic with generous subsidies. So far, though, European courts disagree.
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Ten officials have been indicted in Iran over the 2020 military shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Two men claim Hawaiian Airlines did not properly maintain its aircraft, which led to their hospitalization after the cabin filled with smoke on a flight from California to Hawaii.
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Government health data suggests people are unlikely to get sick while traveling post-vaccination, but new guidance stops short of clearing vaccinated people for travel.
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Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship Tuesday as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert.
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The widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant named the four Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
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The number of people flying in the United States has eclipsed the year-ago level for the first time in the pandemic period, although travel remains deeply depressed from 2019.
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China’s capital and a wide swath of the country’s north were enveloped Monday in the worst sandstorm in a decade, forcing the cancelation of hundreds of flights.
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A Wisconsin environmental group sued the Air Force and National Guard in Washington federal court, claiming they decided to base fighter jets in a predominantly minority and low-income area of Madison without properly assessing the environmental impact.
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Relatives of some of the passengers who died in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane will mark Wednesday’s two-year anniversary of the disaster by seeking the improbable: A reversal of government orders that let Boeing 737 Max jets fly again.
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Photos from the gruesome crash were widely shared and some deputies even bragged about having images on their phones, Vanessa Bryant claims.
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A passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 328 — forced to return to Denver International Airport after the jet’s engine exploded — sued the airline for “leaving passengers to a horrifying view of a fire on the wing, massive turbulence and an emergency landing predicated by a well-deserved mayday call from the cockpit.”
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Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver Saturday. United says it is temporarily removing those aircraft from service.
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The latest generation of smartphones, 5G, can interfere with aircraft altitude instruments, the French Civil Aviation Authority warned Tuesday as it recommended they should be turned off during flight.
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The French government has decided to cancel a planned expansion of the country’s biggest airport, Paris’s Charles de Gaulle, a minister said in remarks published Thursday.
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United Airlines said Wednesday it will buy up to 200 small electric aircraft to help customers in urban areas get to the airport.
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The helicopter pilot likely became disoriented as he flew passengers through poor weather — a violation of safety standards, according to investigators.
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