Radio outage led to close calls for aircraft
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A three-hour air traffic control outage that grounded hundreds of flights across the West on Tuesday also led to five close calls in which planes failed to keep
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Three recent close calls involving commercial aircraft illustrate the need for systems that can quickly warn pilots about dangers on runways, federal safety officials said Tuesday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A plane believed to be a cargo aircraft crashed off the end of a runway at Halifax International Airport, the RCMP said Thursday.
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Los Angeles International Airport  was shut down on Saturday after an apparent security breach, an  airport spokesman said.
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The Los Angeles International Airport has been closed due to a possible security breach. The Associated Press reports two separate incidents caused authorities to close the international terminal and three
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Los Angeles International Airport was shut down for more than four hours on Saturday after a reported security breach but federal officials said no terrorism was suspected.
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Blog: Computer failure blamed for temporary grounding of flights
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On a clear day in Los Angeles last August there was a close call that almost ended in disaster. Tuesday, the NTSB released animation and radio transmissions, revealing a Southwest 737 cleared
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Los Angeles International Airport was closed Saturday after two separate security incidents, an airport spokesman said. In one incident, airport police were responding to reports of a &quot;suspicious person.
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Dublin Airport was closed for 30 minutes this morning because of the bad weather.
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Emergency services are at the scene after a light aircraft crash in south east Wales.
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An airport terminal was temporarily shut down Wednesday after a passenger aboard a flight preparing to depart bolted from the plane and triggered an alarm, authorities said.
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Dubai airport, a major international hub, was closed for at least eight hours on Monday after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft was involved in an accident while trying to take off, officials said.
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StarBand reportedly was supporting its customers with dial-up service during the outage. Intelsat said it was not yet sure what caused the problem on board the IA-7 satellite during the early hours of Sunday
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As air traffic increases, so do close calls, including a recent incident in New York when two planes nearly collided.
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Air traffic controllers lost radio  contact with aircraft flying high-altitude routes in the  western United States on Tuesday, disrupting thousands of  flights heading in and out of southern California, authorities  said.
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LOS ANGELES - Four terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were shut down for more than three hours Saturday after a passenger bypassed security at one terminal and two flashlight batteries exploded during screening at another, authorities said.    The incidents, about a half-hour apart, were apparently unrelated and there was no link to terrorism, according to the federal Transportation Security Administration...