Kyrgyzstan jet grazes U.S. tanker plane
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A Kyrgyz passenger jet on Tuesday grazed a U.S. military tanker plane while taking off from an airport near the Kyrgyz capital, setting the American aircraft ablaze. Nobody was injured, officials said.
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MOSCOW - Officials investigating Tuesday&#39;s twin plane crashes in Russia said they were looking into the condition of the two doomed aircraft, the type of fuel used, weather conditions and pilot error.
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Clear weather allowed a jumbo jet carrying the space shuttle Atlantis to take off Monday for Kentucky on its way back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.
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A Greek fighter jet and a Turkish warplane collided Tuesday near the island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, the Greek government said. A rescue operation was launched for the three missing pilots, two Turks and one Greek.
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Russian bomber aircraft approached a  U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific on Saturday and were  intercepted by American fighter jets, a U.S. defense official  said on Monday.
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Once or twice a week, a tanker unloads millions of gallons of frosty liquid at a terminal on the Chesapeake Bay, bringing to the United States a fuel that many economists believe will help temper energy prices in the coming decades.
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An Air Force officer who vanished in Kyrgyzstan and reappeared three days later returned to Moody Air Force Base on Thursday.
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Investigators picked through the scattered wreckage today of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously Tuesday night after leaving Moscow, and reported
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A Russian passenger jet with 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine on Tuesday after sending a distress signal, emergency officials said. The Interfax news agency, citing the Russian emergencies ministry, said 30 bodies had been found.
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U.S. Air Force Major Jill Metzger,   stationed at an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, went missing while   shopping this week, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday.
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Salvagers have begun removing oil from tanks on a freighter that broke apart last month off Alaska, spilling most of its estimated 442,000 gallons of fuel onto the shoreline.
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_ For the first time since 1975, a US passenger jet is flying from the US directly to Vietnam. The United Air Lines flight with 347 aboard took off from San Francisco today and is scheduled
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U.S. planes struck a militant stronghold that has recently been coordinating attacks against coalition forces.
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Russian officials said Friday they detected traces of a high explosive in the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners, branding it the work of terrorists, while an Islamic
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The U.S. Air Force on Friday sent  three cargo planes to carry Rwandan forces and equipment to  Darfur to assist an African Union peacekeeping effort in the  violent region of western Sudan.
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A group of Islamic militants has claimed responsibility for Tuesdayâs air crashes in Russia. The statement, published on a website known for militant Muslim comment, linked the action to Russia&#39;s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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A U.S. serviceman fatally shot a civilian at the U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday "in response to a threat," the military said.