Tag: Air Travel

Acting National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart speaks during a hearing at the NTSB in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. Tests of pilots killed in plane crashes over more than two decades show an increasing use of both legal and illegal drugs, including some that could impair flying, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Hart said the board "is concerned about possible safety implications of increased drug use in all modes of transportation." He called the report "an important first step toward understanding those implications." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Study: More pilots testing positive for drugs

Joan Lowy · September 10, 2014 1:27 am

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert Sumwalt holds up a document during a hearing at the NTSB in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The NTSB was meeting to discuss UPS Flight 1354 plane crash. The UPS plane, an Airbus A300-600F, crashed shortly before dawn on Aug. 14, 2013, as it was preparing to land in Birmingham. It hit trees and a utility pole before slamming into a hillside and bursting into flames. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Safety board finds multiple errors in UPS crash

Joan Lowy · September 9, 2014 8:59 pm

Jamaican Defence Force members return to Port Antonio Marina in Portland, Jamaica, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, after a fruitless search for a plane that crashed into the ocean. Rescue crews searching off Jamaica's coast on Saturday said they could no longer see debris spotted earlier, stymieing efforts to solve the mystery surrounding a small plane carrying a prominent upstate New York couple that went on a ghostly 1,700-mile journey after the pilot was apparently incapacitated. Jamaican officials said that possible wreckage from the single-engine turboprop Socata TBM700 was sighted Friday evening by a military aircraft flying off the island's northeast coast, drifting roughly 24 miles off the coastal town of Port Antonio. (AP Photo/Everard Owen)

National Security

Mystery shrouds US couple’s crash off Jamaica

DAVID MCFADDENJOAN LOWY · September 7, 2014 1:19 am

Small plane crashes into Atlantic off Miami Beach

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 9:24 pm

You can't push against the seat until the other person returns the reclining seat to its upright position. You can't scream and swear and throw things. If you do, the airplane will land at the nearest airport and let the cops put you in a seat you'll find even less comfy, Chapman writes. (iStock Photo)

Want more leg room in a flight? Pay for it

Steve Chapman · September 6, 2014 5:53 pm

National Security

Iran: Paperwork, expenses caused plane diversion

Adam Schreck · September 6, 2014 1:40 pm

JFK baggage handlers busted in $40K handbag heist

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 2:05 am

National Security

Flight plan dispute puts plane on ground in Iran

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 12:44 am

Officials of the U.S. Export-Import Bank blew the agency's travel budget by millions of dollars after taking 400 first-class flights over the last three years, according to records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act. (iStock Photo)

Ex-Im exceeds travel budget by millions after flying first class 400 times

Luke Rosiak · September 4, 2014 7:00 pm

United adds larger version of Boeing Dreamliner

Washington Examiner · September 4, 2014 4:42 pm

Norman Foster, Romero to build Mexico airport

Eduardo Castillo · September 4, 2014 2:51 am

Recline rancor: Passenger recalls seat dispute

Scott Mayerowitz · September 3, 2014 9:01 pm