In a statement published by the FAA late Tuesday afternoon, the agency's Administrator Randy Babbitt announced his resignation. Babbitt had been arrested for drunk driving over the weekend.
Delta Air Lines on Thursday announced plans to buy 100 new 737-900ER aircraft from Boeing in a move to replace older aircraft in the carrier's fleet over the next seven years.
More wreckage of Air France Flight 447 was found in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, nearly two years after the Airbus A330-200 went missing during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.