American Airlines on Thursday applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation for authority to fly nonstop from Dallas/Fort Worth to Rio de Janeiro three times weekly beginning this Fall.
Throngs of Boeing employees and suppliers gathered in Everett, Wash. on Friday to celebrate the completion of the 1,000th Boeing 777 widebody airliner.
Today in 1910, air-to-ground radio transmission is born; 1913, the first loop-the-loop maneuver is performed; in 1939, the jet age begins with the first flight of the Heinkel 178; 2006, Comair 5191 crashes in Lexington, Kentucky.
Six people were killed and six injured Thursday morning when a Manx2 passenger plane crashed at Cork Airport in Ireland during its third landing attempt in thick fog.