A Transportation Security Administration employee in Buffalo, New York, was arrested and charged with helping a suspected marijuana trafficker get through security, federal authorities said Tuesday.
When booking a flight online, you may think you're getting a seat on a major airline, but it's possible to unknowingly end up on a regional carrier instead.
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) -- Russia's gold-medal celebration went into overtime. And that prevented them from boarding their flight Thursday morning, a day after they won the World Junior Hockey Championships.
Many Americans planning holiday travel have expressed concern -- even outrage -- over the the Transportation Security Administration's use of full-body scanning and enhanced pat-downs, but a large number of fliers are likely to bypass both screening procedures.
Confronted with signs that his plane was entering an aerodynamic stall, the pilot of Continental Flight 3407 pulled on the plane's control column when he should have pushed -- a simple but inexplicable error that led to the death of 50 people, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Tuesday evening.
Two experts weigh in on the cause of the Colgan Air crash, which federal authorities say was likely due to pilot error.
The co-pilot of a plane that crashed in Buffalo, New York, in February was feeling ill and had considered backing out of the flight, according to a cockpit voice recorder transcript released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Regaining the public's confidence in air travel, on every plane at every airport, is imperative, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday as he kicked off an air-safety summit.
Gulfstream International Airlines responds to safety concerns. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered its inspectors to make sure regional airlines' training programs are in line with federal regulations, authorities announced Tuesday.
A wheel from the main landing gear of a Colgan Airlines passenger plane fell off and rolled away as the aircraft was landing in Buffalo, New York, earlier this week.
The crew of a commuter plane that crashed outside Buffalo, New York, in February may have responded improperly to signs the plane was stalling, according to details of the investigation released Wednesday.
As mourning continues for the victims of Flight 3407, the investigation is underway to determine what caused the crash.
Recovering all the bodies from Thursday's deadly passenger plane crash may take four days as investigators work through freezing temperatures and piles of wreckage, a federal transportation official said Saturday.
One person credits bad weather and the other a long line.
iReporter Will Charland shot this video of the crash site of Flight 3047 in suburban Buffalo, New York.
The pilots of a commuter airliner that crashed late Thursday about 6 miles from a Buffalo, New York, airport discussed "significant ice buildup" on the plane's wings and windshields before the plane plunged to the ground, killing 50.
The plane that crashed Thursday night near Buffalo, New York, had its nose down and wings tilted to the left just before impact, a witness told CNN on Friday morning.
A man saw the plane before it crashed and said it was nose down and tilted toward the left.
Among those lost was a 9/11 widow en route to celebrate her late husband
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