The Transportation Security Administration is failing to adequately report, track and fix airport security breaches, according to the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.
The Transportation Security Administration is failing to adequately report, track and fix airport security breaches, according to the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.
A New Jersey woman traveling to an explosives demonstration in California was stopped at Newark Liberty International Airport after land mine casings were found in her luggage, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
Scuba divers, take note: Please leave your spear guns at home, or place them in your checked luggage. But do not try to bring them on a plane.
By all accounts, it started innocently. An airport screener missed a bag.
Forget a spa-day -- business travelers are lucky to get a spa-minute.
A survivor from the Polish plane that was forced to land without landing gear says the pilot did a great job.
A Boeing 767 on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, made a dramatic emergency landing at Warsaw, Poland's Frederic Chopin International airport Tuesday after problems with its landing gear, an airport spokeswoman said.
While Hurricane Irene's impact wasn't nearly as bad as expected, the severe weather still managed to cripple travel all along the East Coast at a time when many families were planning one last getaway before the summer's end.
The earthquake that struck the U.S. northeast on Tuesday slowed but didn't halt major transportation services.
A New Jersey rabbi beat and kidnapped an Israeli man and threatened to bury him alive unless he agreed to a divorce and his family paid off his ex-wife, federal prosecutors say.
Authorities are investigating how a stun gun ended up on a JetBlue aircraft in New Jersey on Friday night.
A federal report says security screeners at Newark International Airport singled out Mexican and Dominican passengers.
What is it about immigration? It brings out the best in America. And yet, talking about it brings out the worst in many Americans. The United States is becoming withdrawn and bitter, and the national mood is becoming uglier.
Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport singled out Mexican and Dominican passengers for nearly two years, according to a federal report obtained by The Star-Ledger newspaper.
The death of Osama bin Laden could signal an increase in homegrown terrorism. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.
Travelers expressed both relief and concern about the death of Osama Bin Laden, the terror mastermind who changed airport security forever after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Two ancient Chinese artifacts were intercepted by U.S. federal agents after smugglers allegedly tried to bring the items through Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
A New Jersey Transportation Security Administration officer on Thursday pleaded guilty to federal charges that he and his supervisor regularly stole from passengers during screenings at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to federal prosecutors.
An electrical outage at a power station in northern New Jersey left 20,000 households -- and a major airport -- without power Monday, prompting authorities to restrict incoming and outgoing flights at Newark International Airport, officials said.
Authorities gave an all clear at Newark, New Jersey's Liberty International Airport on Monday morning after briefly shutting down Terminal A due to a "suspicious package," according to the FBI.
An airport security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing from the baggage of travelers during security searches, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey announced.
A personal phone conversation by an air traffic controller likely contributed to the cause of a deadly midair collision over the Hudson River last year, the The National Transportation Safety Board said.
A small plane that hit a sightseeing helicopter last summer had little time to avoid the accident, NTSB documents show.
The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that it has closed an investigation into the proposed merger of United and Continental, paving the way for the airlines to unite later this year.
"Airspace congestion" is routinely cited as the cause of air travel delays, particularly in the busy, storm-prone summer months.
Passengers aboard a Virgin Atlantic plane that was diverted to Connecticut complained Wednesday they were held on the hot plane for hours with no food or water until 1 a.m.
Flight delays decreased 6 percent from 2007 to 2009, largely because airlines put fewer planes in the sky because of the recession, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office.
Airlines hoping for exemptions at some airports to the tarmac delay rule going into effect next week are out of luck.
US Airways has joined a handful of other carriers in filing for an exemption from the tarmac delay rule going into effect next month. The airline has asked the Department of Transportation for a waiver to the rule for its hub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A man who pleaded guilty to a security breach at Newark Airport apologizes. News 12's Toni Yates reports.
Many air travelers know: Getting through the airport can make flying look easy.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says he's been flooded with questions about the health risks of airport scanners.
Airports in the Northeast were digging out from Wednesday's heavy snow as winter weather in Texas complicated operations Thursday at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
A winter storm has halted operations at some airports in the Northeast, and thousands of flights have been canceled.
CNN's Chad Myers has the latest on the winter storm's trek across the eastern United States.
Authorities diverted a Bogota, Colombia-bound Continental Airlines flight to Florida on Friday because of a "potential person of interest," although the passenger was later cleared, federal aviation authorities said.
A Brooklyn man faces a trespassing charge after allegedly causing a security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday.
A security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday prompted authorities to evacuate a terminal, disrupting travel and sparking delays for hundreds of passengers.
A man who faces a trespassing charge for allegedly triggering a security breach at the Newark, New Jersey, airport was released from custody early Saturday, Port Authority police said.
A security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday evening forced the closure of a terminal for hours while authorities rescreened thousands of passengers.
CNN's Alina Cho reports from inside Newark Airport on the security lockdown.
Hours after a security breach forced the closure of a terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport Sunday, authorities were still searching for a man who went the wrong way through a checkpoint exit.
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Federal investigators find potential danger at Newark Liberty International Airport. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
Mustering up thanks for the very, very simple things was about all Therese Borchard could do when she began jotting notes in a gratitude journal. She was grateful for her bagel and cream cheese. Desserts and coffee, too, got nods. So did the warm water in her shower.
A former security guard at a New Jersey airport who was accused of making threats against the president is expected to be released from jail Thursday after a judge determined that he is not a threat to himself or others, the prosecutor's office said.
A security guard at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport is under arrest for allegedly making threatening remarks about President Obama, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
An air traffic controller was joking with a woman about a dead cat just moments before a helicopter and small plane collided over the Hudson River in August, according to a recording released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.
After a tiff that has lasted two weeks, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, said Wednesday that he is in discussions with "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien to "bury the hatchet and the feud."
CNN's Larry King talks with Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker about his city's feud with late night comedian Conan O'Brien.
Federal officials Monday clarified their description of what an air traffic controller at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport could have seen on radar just before a tour helicopter collided with a small plane over the Hudson River.
Leading Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan says he was detained for nearly two hours Friday night at New Jersey's Newark International Airport because of his last name.
Investigators probing last weekend's fatal aircraft collision over New York's Hudson River focused Friday on an air traffic controller, though union leaders angrily said the controller could have done nothing to prevent the crash.
Retired airline captain Jim Tilmon joins Anderson to analyze new video of the collision above the waters of the Hudson River.
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.
A former Goldman Sachs employee accused of stealing a proprietary computer code to the firm's trading program is out on bail, according to court documents.
CNN's Allan Chernoff reports on a Continental Airlines pilot who died during a flight from Belgium to New Jersey.
The pilot of Continental Flight 61 died Thursday as the plane flew from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said.
The turboprop plane that crashed in New York state, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground, was one of the safest and most sophisticated aircraft of its type, according to an aviation industry expert.
Audio of air traffic control sheds light on crashed plane's last moments
Among those lost was a 9/11 widow en route to celebrate her late husband
The New York metropolitan area's three major airports had the worst U.S. on-time record in January, according to an organization that tracks and compiles data about the airline industry.
Ever heard of a "netbook"? They're small, light, machines that sell for as little as $250 to just north of $600 - and they're selling like hot cakes.
Domestic airlines improved their on-time arrival rates in May, although more than one in five flights still failed to get passengers to their destination as scheduled
Your delayed flight is bad news for you and your airline, but it's money in the bank for the airports.
Snowstorms whipped through the Northeast on Friday, causing significant travel delays at airports in the New York area and elsewhere.
A snowstorm blanketed New York City early Friday, causing headaches for commuters and delaying flights at the region's major airports
Millions of Americans are joining the bustle of Thanksgiving travelers on the eve of one of the nation's busiest travel days.
Every week for more than a year of his travels, Jay Lenstrom, the chief executive of Chicago-based Radiate Group, got stuck for several hours at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. He tried to make the best of it.
The most "far-flung and exotic fugitive investigation ever conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service" ended early Sunday with convicted child molester Alan Horowitz in custody on U.S. soil.
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Karl Malone played basketball. Dana John plays basketball.
The U.S. environmental Protection Agency has ordered that all towns with populations of more than 10,000 must stop grease- and oil-contaminated storm water from running into lakes, rivers, and othe...
A commercial plane with more than 300 people on board bumped an empty plane Tuesday at Newark Liberty International Airport.
First the bad news: Long airport layovers are here to stay. With fewer planes flying but just as many people traveling, passengers now spend twice as much time in transit limbo as they did prior to...
Two baggage screeners have been reassigned pending the outcome of a federal investigation into how a bag containing a simulated bomb made its way aboard a Continental Airlines flight bound for Holland, a Transportation Security Administration official said Friday.
Earlier this year my wife and I flew into Newark Airport on a Continental Airlines flight from Madrid. We had less than two hours to make a connecting flight to San Francisco, but 70 minutes later ...
Four people were arrested and charged with immigrant smuggling Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, according to a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
Here's how my brother Eric spent his Christmas vacation--or part of it anyway. On Dec. 26, he left his home in Manhattan and drove to Newark International Airport, where he boarded a Continental fl...
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