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The pilot of an airplane that collided with another midair near Denver requested an emergency landing for engine failure, not knowing that his plane was nearly ripped in half.

Relatives of people who died in one of the Boeing 737 Max crashes are renewing their push to replace top regulators who approved the plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration is warning air travelers about what it describes as a dramatic increase in unruly or dangerous behavior aboard passenger airplanes. In a typical year, the transportation agency sees 100 to 150 formal cases of bad passenger behavior. But since the start of this year, the agency said, the number of cases has jumped to 1,300, an…

“Nobody here is replacing a helicopter or a jet,” Beta founder Kyle Clark told CNBC. “We’re actually enabling entirely new routes and missions.”

United Parcel Service is taking delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

The FAA fined Boeing $6.6 million over compliance and quality control lapses.

United Airlines said Wednesday it will buy up to 200 small electric aircraft to help customers in urban areas get to the airport.

Federal officials are outlining new rules that will let operators fly small drones over people and at night.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules on Monday that will allow small drones to be flown over people and at night.

VC investor Tim Draper has invested in start-ups developing human jetpack suits and flying motorcycles via VTOL technology enabling human propulsion.

The Federal Aviation Administration said pilots can receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and must wait 48 hours before performing any aviation duties.

The Federal Aviation Administration has said the 737 Max will be allowed to fly again. The plane was grounded for 20 months following two crashes that resulted in more than 300 fatalities.

Federal regulators want to fine Boeing $19.7 million for using sensors that weren’t listed as compatible with systems that pilots use to see instrument displays without looking down at the dashboard.

Southwest Airlines continues to fly airplanes with safety concerns while federal officials do a poor job overseeing the airline, a government watchdog said Tuesday. The airline has flown more than 150,000 flights on 88 jets it bought on the used-plane market and which had unconfirmed maintenance histories, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said in a report. That put more than…

Boeing said Tuesday that it doesn’t expect federal regulators to approve its changes to the grounded 737 Max until this summer, several months longer than the company was saying just a few weeks ago. That timetable — the latest of several delays in the plane’s approval process — will create more headaches for airlines by pushing the Max’s return further…

A government advisory committee has concluded that federal regulators followed established procedures when they certified the Boeing 737 Max and did not delegate too much safety analysis for the plane to Boeing....

In a report Thursday, the panel said the FAA correctly treated the Max as an update to older 737s and not as a new type of plane, which would...

Boeing said Tuesday it is recommending that pilots receive training in a flight simulator before the grounded 737 Max returns to flying, a reversal of the company’s long-held position that computer-based training alone was adequate.

Boeing is planning to suspend production of its beleaguered 737 Max planes next month, the company said Monday, a drastic step after the Federal Aviation Administration said its review of the planes would continue into next year. Boeing’s decision, made after months of a cash-draining global grounding of its best-selling aircraft, worsens one of the most severe crises in the...

Boeing will halt production of their 737 Max aircraft a person familiar with the matter said Monday.

Authorities say no one was hurt when an evacuation slide fell from an airliner into the yard of a suburban Boston home. A company spokeswoman confirms to the Boston Herald that the uninflated slide fell from a Delta Air Lines flight from Paris inbound to Boston’s Logan International Airport at about noon Sunday.