The intercontinental ballistic missile tested Friday by North Korea fell into the Sea of Japan less than 10 minutes after an Air France jet passed over the area, ABC News reported Tuesday, citing a U.S. official. After departing Tokyo, Flight 293 was traveling west of ...
An All Nippon Airways plane skidded off a runway after landing at Shin-Chitose Airport in Hokkaido around noon Thursday but no one was injured, the transport ministry said. The Bombardier DHC8-Q400 carrying 21 passengers and four crew members from Akita came to a stop after ...
Officials say a light plane has crashed after takeoff from Malta International Airport, killing all five people on board. The five victims were all French, according to an airport source. It was not immediately clear if they were military or civilian. The twin-prop Metroliner tipped toward ...
Malaysia confirmed Tuesday that a piece of metal found washed up on a Thai beach last week was not from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that went missing almost two years ago in one of aviation history's most enduring mysteries. The confirmation came a day after ...
Three years after Peru became the world's leading cocaine producer, small planes are ferrying more than a ton a day to Bolivia right under the military's nose. While drug corruption is rife in Peru, the narco-flight plague represents a failure of its armed forces, which ...
His father was afraid to fly, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken to the skies, building a series of small runways long enough to land light, private aircraft next to some of his palaces, satellite imagery shows. Construction on Kim's personal landing ...
As the 30th anniversary of Japan's worst aviation accident approaches, the father of the sole British victim is hoping a new book will ensure the disaster is remembered for generations to come. Peter Mathews, who lost his son, Kimble, in the crash, has provided extensive ...
Japan wants to give planes to the Philippines that Manila could use for patrols in the South China Sea, sources said, a move that would deepen Tokyo's security ties with the Southeast Asian nation most at odds with Beijing over the disputed waterway. Four sources ...
How hard did Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hit the water after it ran out of fuel and plummeted from cruising altitude? Not as hard as you might think, accident experts say. The relatively intact condition of the wing piece that washed up on Reunion island ...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. opened a U.S. facility Monday to advance the development of its regional jet, Japan's first indigenously built small jet, by facilitating flight testing and analysis, starting next year. "Our aim is to make the best use of the resources and skill set ...
Plane debris washed up on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean is almost certainly part of a Boeing 777, a Malaysian official and aviation experts said, potentially providing some answers for families of those aboard last year's vanished flight MH370. Malaysian investigators ...
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. The foreign ministers of the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine attended a meeting ...
