Grounded Nimrod flight takes off
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Two Nimrod flights from RAF Kinloss take off after being cancelled due to delays for safety checks on the fleet.
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A bomb-threatened Olympic Airways plane landed safely at Shannon airport today after being diverted to Ireland following a warning telephoned to an Athens newspaper.
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SAN FRANCISCO A United Airlines plane has taken off on the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam in almost three decades.
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A Lufthansa plane heading to the United  States from Germany made an unscheduled landing in Ireland on  Friday after the airline received a call saying there was a  suspect device on board, Dublin airport authority said.
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New Englanders will soon be able to fly on nonstop service to a corner of Ireland that's never seen regular trans-Atlantic flights -- and they can thank a Scottish airline.
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A search is to resume at first light for a plane which disappeared from the radar on a flight from Stornoway to Inverness.
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The bodies of 12 servicemen killed in a Nimrod crash in Afghanistan will be flown back to their home base.
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The MoD grounds Nimrod MR2 aircraft as checks are carried out on possible fuel pipe problems.
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By Angela Nagel and Susanne Nadeau, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 9--A student and instructor in a UND helicopter had engine trouble Friday morning and put the aircraft down in a field south of Grand Forks.
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Passengers from a Continental Airlines jet bound from Tokyo for Houston walk around Cold Bay, Alaska after the jet experienced engine trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004.
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An Airbus A380 super-jumbo takes off from southern France on its first test flight with 474 passengers.
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Word from the control tower has it that the geeks have been cleared to take the runway.
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By From staff and news services A paraglider who took off from a mountain in Vermont early Friday afternoon made a hard landing about five hours later on York Beach, after gliding about 150 miles. Sgt.
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A Nimrod flight from RAF Kinloss is delayed for safety checks on the fleet after a "technical issue" arises.
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A REVOLUTIONARY new type of aircraft that could lead to flights between Glasgow and Sydney in only two hours, will be tested in America tomorrow.
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A historic passenger jet flight from Australia to Antarctica touched down smoothly on a blue ice runway Friday, launching the only regular airlink between the continents.
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A bomb-alert Olympic Airways plane was back in the air and completing its journey to New York after being diverted to Ireland amid a bomb scare.