Federal Aviation Administration officials say an error by an air traffic controller allowed a commuter plane to get too close to a Boeing 767 on approach to Los Angeles International Airport last week. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said Tuesday that an American Eagle Embraer ...

Air traffic controllers in a major control center in California were reduced to using personal mobile phones to guide dozens of airplanes when the communications system crashed for several minutes Wednesday morning. Controller Scott Conde said he was in front of a radar screen at the so-called Oakland ...

Authorities say a metal baggage container was sucked into an engine of a Boeing 747 at Los Angeles International Airport. No one was injured. Marshall Lowe, an airport spokesman, says the incident occurred as Japan Airlines Flight 61 to Narita, Japan, was pushing back from a ...

A small plane has made an emergency landing on a school playground at a west Phoenix elementary school, but no one was hurt. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says a single-engine Cessna 152 with a flight instructor and student on board left nearby Glendale Municipal Airport ...