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Two people died after their single-engine plane, a type of home-built craft used primarily for aerobatics, crashed in Solano County on Thursday morning, authorities said.The crash occurred at 11:45 a.m.near the Rio Vista Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The airport is northwest of Stockton and east of Napa Valley.

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With air travel recovering from the pandemic, a new study found that bad behavior among airline passengers has continued to rise.A new analysis by the International Air Transport Assn.shows that unruly-passenger incidents on airplanes increased 47% from 2021 to 2022, from one incident per 835 flights to one incident per 568 flights.

The unfriendly skies during Thursday night's atmospheric river storm limited arrivals at the San Francisco and San Jose airports, causing some impromptu detours to Oakland.According to the National Weather Service, Thursday night's storm drew wind gusts that reached 53 mph in San Francisco, 63 mph in Contra Costa County, and 79 mph in Los Gatos.

Five people who worked for an environmental response consulting firm were killed in a plane crash Wednesday in Little Rock, Arkansas, while on their way to a metal factory explosion site in Ohio, officials said.The plane was carrying employees of the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health when it took off from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock around noon Wednesday, according to the firm and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Five people were killed, including a patient and a family member, after a medical airplane crashed in Nevada on Friday night, the company Care Flight said.Care Flight, which is a service of REMSA Health in Reno, Nev., and Guardian Flight, in Utah, confirmed the fatal crash in a statement.The five people who died onboard were the pilot, a flight nurse, a flight paramedic, a patient and a patient's family member.

About 4 miles from the Chicago Rockford International Airport, violet wood sorrel has started to grow.The low-lying Illinois native with delicate, trumpet-shaped flowers is a sign of hope for those involved in a last-ditch effort to save some of the soil disturbed by a new road that will run through the heart of Rockford's ancient Bell Bowl Prairie.

A small plane crashed near a central Illinois church filled with worshippers, injuring two men who were aboard the aircraft, authorities said.The single-engine Piper Cherokee Six crashed Wednesday night in the parking lot of Open Arms Christian Fellowship in Lincoln, coming to rest nose-down in a landscaped area with its left wing sheared off and other damage.

The saga of suspected Chinese spy balloons - or perhaps crafts visiting from much, much farther away - hovering in American airspace drifted closer to home over the weekend when federal aviation authorities temporarily closed air traffic over Lake Michigan so that fighter jets could shoot down a flying object.

Two Senate Democrats want the Biden administration to take another look at whether airplane seats are too cramped.The pressure in the form of legislation from Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Tammy Baldwin would require the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct new airplane cabin evacuation tests with more realistic conditions, and issue standards that include the size of and space between seats.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday that it had awarded more than $100 million to a dozen airports to help prevent accidents after a series of near collisions this year.The money is intended to reduce incursions, in which planes, vehicles and people mistakenly occupy or obstruct runways.

A business jet carrying a former White House official this month pitched up and down in midair, causing her death, after pilots turned off a system that stabilizes the plane, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report.The pilots noticed several warnings related to system failures of the aircraft's flight control as it traveled from Keene, N.H., to Leesburg, Va., on March 3, and they followed steps on a checklist, which advised them to turn off a switch that controls a stabilizer function in the aircraft, according to the report.

President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from nomination, a person familiar with the decision told CNN.Phillip Washington's nomination was first announced by the White House last year, but has faced strong criticism from Republican lawmakers over a number of issues, including Washington's slim aviation credentials and his potential legal entanglements.

The nation's top military officer said on Tuesday that a U.S. fighter jet missed this week when it fired a missile at an object flying over Lake Huron, before the second missile was launched and hit it.General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the wayward missile landed harmlessly in the water, but it raises troubling questions about the newfound American policy to fire at unidentified flying objects in US airspace.

The Athletics and lawmakers in Nevada have reached a tentative agreement on a stadium funding structure, per reports from both Mick Akers and Steve Sebelius of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Tabitha Mueller and Howard Stutz of the Nevada Independent.The Athletics initially agreed to a land purchase just west of the Las Vegas strip and were going to be asking for $500MM in public funding via county-issued bonds to be paid by tax dollars related to the stadium and relocation project.

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The fuel-starved plane that plunged into the Pacific Ocean while attempting to reach Half Moon Bay on Saturday was owned by the financial investment firm of billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin.A statement by Bayshore Global Management sent to The Times late Monday confirmed ownership of the plane, which had been blocked from Federal Aviation Administration-fed tracking services and was registered to a trust run by a bank in Utah.

A person who tried to steal a helicopter Wednesday morning at Sacramento Executive Airport crashed into the tarmac shortly after starting the aircraft, according to authorities.It's unclear how far the suspect was able to get the helicopter off the tarmac before crashing, but images taken by KCRA-TV in Sacramento showed a black helicopter lying on its side.

Two people were killed Sunday afternoon in a small airplane crash in Northern California, authorities said.The crash happened along Dog Bar Road near Colfax, a small city northeast of Sacramento, about 1:30 p.m., according to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, but the Sheriff's Office said officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were en route to the scene to investigate.

Former Santa Monica Mayor Rex Minter died after a small plane in which he was a passenger crash-landed on the beach in Santa Monica on Thursday afternoon, city officials confirmed.Santa Monica Mayor Gleam Davis confirmed in a tweet Thursday night that Minter was a passenger in the single-engine Cessna airplane that flipped over after the pilot landed on the shoreline.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 by Jo Clifton
In response to the massive explosion of Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket at Boca Chica in South Texas, the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, the Surfrider Foundation, Save RGV and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc. sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday for failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms resulting from the launch program.

Three people aboard a small plane were killed Monday after it crashed in a residential neighborhood in Big Bear, about a mile from the city's airport, according to authorities.The plane - a single-engine Beechcraft A36, according to the Federal Aviation Administration - smashed into a field near the intersection of Paradise Way and Maltby Boulevard around 2 p.m., the Big Bear Fire Department posted on Twitter.

President Biden's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Phillip A. Washington, has withdrawn from consideration for the job, according to the White House.Abdullah Hasan, a spokesman for the White House, said that Mr. Washington had the right qualifications and experience to run the F.A.A., despite Senate Republicans' lengthy and ultimately successful efforts to sink the nomination.

LOS ANGELES An airline jet being towed on a taxiway collided with a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport late Friday, injuring five people.The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that it is investigating the incident involving an American Airlines Airbus A321 jet.There were no passengers on board.

More than 500 flights at O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport were delayed Wednesday morning because of a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration that brought flights across the country to a standstill.Another 89 flights at the two airports were canceled, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.

Only weeks after a Southwest Airlines meltdown led to thousands of canceled flights and stranded passengers, the nation's air travel system was briefly interrupted Wednesday due to an outage in the computer system used by the Federal Aviation Administration to give pilots vital information before they take off.

Several environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday, saying that the agency had not sufficiently regulated the launch of SpaceX's Starship rocket from South Texas.In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, DC, the groups say that the FAA failed to account for the damage caused by testing and launching the Starship rocket, which results in "intense heat, noise, and light that adversely affects surrounding habitat areas and communities, which included designated critical habitat for federally protected species as well as National Wildlife Refuge and State Park lands."

During its brief first flight more than a week ago, the gigantic Starship rocket made by SpaceX generated an unanticipated rock tornado at launch, and multiple engines failed as it headed upward before it somersaulted out of control.Then, said Elon Musk, the company's founder, in an update delivered during a Twitter audio chat on Saturday night, the end of the flight was tenser than it should have been.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.(CNN)SpaceX just attempted to ignite all 33 engines in a test fire of its gargantuan Super Heavy rocket booster.The trial marks the company's first "static fire" test for what is expected to be the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.

Air traffic controllers stopped a departing private jet from running into a JetBlue flight as it was coming in to land Monday night in Boston, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The FAA says it is investigating the incident.This is the fifth close call involving a commercial airliner on a runway this year.

Camila Alves McConaughey was a passenger on the Lufthansa flight Wednesday that experienced severe turbulence.The model, entrepreneur and wife of Matthew McConaughey posted on Instagram Thursday to share her experience.On Flight last night, plane dropped almost 4000 feet, 7 people went to the hospital, Everything was flying everywhere.

A small airport in Pennsylvania was closed on Friday night after a suspicious package was detected in checked luggage on a flight bound for Chicago.The authorities later said that bag did not contain anything hazardous, and that the airport would reopen at 4 a.m. on Saturday.The passenger terminal at the University Park Airport in State College, Pa., was evacuated out of an abundance of caution around 6:30 p.m. after a suspicious item was detected by airport security, the Penn State University Police and Public Safety Department said on Twitter.

All flights were grounded at University Park Airport in Pennsylvania Friday as authorities investigated a suspicious device in a checked bag, forcing about 100 passengers to be bused out of the area and the airport to close until Saturday, officials said.The airport in State College, located less than five miles from the Penn State University campus, was closed to air traffic and passengers while an explosives device team and local police examined the contents of the bag, which was checked on a flight en route to Chicago, Penn State University Police and Public Safety said in a statement.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has shot down an unidentified object in Canadian airspace, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday."I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.[NORAD] shot down the object over the Yukon.Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object," Trudeau said in a statement on Twitter.

US aviation authorities are investigating a near miss at Boston's Logan international airport after a JetBlue pilot had to take evasive action while landing when another aircraft crossed an intersecting runway.The close call occurred at about 7pm on Monday when the pilot of a Learjet 60 took off without clearance as a JetBlue flight was preparing to land on an intersecting runway, according to a preliminary review from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Boeing has been forced to halt deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner once again, just months after it resumed deliveries to customers following a year-long halt.Boeing will have to conduct additional analysis of the fuselage in order to address new concerns of the Federal Aviation Administration, according to statements from the regulator and the company.

The nation's top aviation official talked about the safety risks of complacency in a Senate hearing Wednesday, and said the Federal Aviation Administration is juggling three competing systems of controlling US airspace.Billy Nolen, the acting FAA administrator, appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to address the software outage that halted flight departures nationwide last month, a near miss between an American Airlines plane and a Delta Air Lines plane on a JFK airport runway last month, another close call between a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest plane in Austin, Texas, earlier this month, and other recent safety problems plaguing the aviation industry.

Five people were injured on Friday night after an American Airlines plane struck a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport in California, officials said, in what was the latest in a string of unusual incidents at major airports in the past four weeks.The plane, an Airbus A321, had no passengers and was being towed on a taxiway around 10 p.m. local time when it hit a bus that was transporting passengers between terminals, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

After clearing the city's largest homeless camp around Columbus Park, San Jose is moving ahead with plans to revitalize the location and change its name.The 70-year-old park currently bares the name of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, whose legacy is criticized due to his exploitation of Native Americans.

While many Santa Clara County residents are gathering for Thanksgiving in warm settings, dozens of homeless people living in tents, RVs or cars in and around San Jose's Columbus Park are facing a more somber reality.Many residents there claim the city illegally trashed or destroyed their shelters and belongings in recent sweeps, and are hoping to make it through the colder weeks ahead as fall turns to winter.

It was a routine flying day at Zamperini Field in Torrance for Douglas Happ, an 81-year-old retired pilot and Vietnam veteran.He was doing "touch-and-gos" in his single-engine Arion Lightning with his friend Gregg Low, 59, with whom he was considering buying a plane.The duo flew for 18 minutes Wednesday, circling the airport, landing and taking off again without stopping.

A small plane crashed off the side of the runway as it attempted to land at Torrance Municipal Airport on Wednesday morning, authorities said.The Torrance Police and Fire departments responded to the scene of the crash around 11 a.m., a spokesman for the Police Department said.Video footage from the scene showed the plane wreckage piled up just off the runway, with fire trucks and police cars parked nearby.

A small plane crashed into a transmission tower in Maryland on Sunday, knocking out electricity to roughly 85,000 customers as rescuers raced to extricate the two people on board who were trapped about 100 feet above the ground, the authorities said.The pilot and the passenger, whose names were not released by the authorities, did not appear to be seriously injured, Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said on Sunday.

A television news helicopter crashed along an interstate highway in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, killing a meteorologist and a pilot for a local station, officials said.The television station, WBTV, identified those killed in the crash, which occurred around noon along southbound Interstate 77, as Jason Myers, a meteorologist, and Chip Tayag, a pilot.