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There were no reported injuries on the ground or on board Flight 1001, United said in a statement.

Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 Max jetliners after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years, the Justice Department said.

Father Tom Frith died in a helicopter crash at an airport after he had been battling a blaze near Fort Good Hope.

Dozens of people were injured, forcing the plane into an emergency landing.

Flying from Perth to Melbourne and Adelaide looks set to become cheaper, with airline REX launching direct flights.

Boeing is being sanctioned by US investigators for sharing information about a federal investigation of a door plug blowout that left a gaping hole in a Boeing 737 Max 9.

A technical fault is being blamed for the mid-air emergency that left 17 people requiring hospitalisation.

Two climate activists have been arrested after cutting through a fence at a London airport and spray-painting private jets orange.

At least two major airlines have warned pilots that if a bird hits one of the engines on a Boeing 737 Max, the passenger cabin could become filled with smoke.

Air safety investigators in the United States are examining how the plane almost plunged into the ocean off Hawaii.

Keith Davis and his wife Kerry Jordan from Adelaide are among those who were injured on the flight that hit extreme turbulence last month.

Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night in the USA, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain.

A union says it is a 'dark day' for Australia's aviation industry, with regional communities across Australia left isolated.

The Su-57 fighter involved in the reported strike had been lauded as one of Moscow's most advanced military aircraft.

The plane with 173 passengers and six crew onboard landed safely.

The aircraft carrying top government officials vanished from radar shortly after taking off from the southern African nation's capital.

Qantas says the aircraft landed normally in Sydney and is being inspected by engineers.

Combining the low air pressure and oxygen levels of an aeroplane cabin with drinking alcohol could be bad for your heart, a new study has found.

Vanessa Hudson has has acknowledged the "anger" of thousands of customers who were sold tickets for already-cancelled flights.

Qantas called it the "most comprehensive change we're doing to the boarding process for over a decade".

Australia's aviation authority says it needs more information about what caused the deadly Outback Wrangler helicopter disaster.

A passenger has described the moment the aircraft slid off the tarmac in New Zealand as "so scary".

Dutch airline KLM and the country's military police confirmed the death on Wednesday afternoon (early on Thursday AEDT).

A lawsuit filed on behalf of three Black men alleges "blatant and egregious race discrimination" by American Airlines when they were removed from a flight.

After examining the plane's black box, investigators said SQ321 was a normal flight until a "slight vibration" just seconds before disaster struck.

The airline is being sued by the Transport Workers' Union in the Federal Court after the firm laid off almost 1700 ground staff in November 2020.

It's the aeroplane seat design that launched a thousand memes, kickstarted a media storm and became a byword for innovation in aviation, for better or for worse.

A flight en route to Melbourne has been forced to return to Perth after a man allegedly ran through the aircraft naked last night. 

The incident comes five days after a British man died of a suspected heart attack and dozens of people were injured.

Keith Davis has described the 'absolute carnage' during the plane's freefall, revealing his wife suffered a serious spinal injury.

The man died as a plane carrying dozens of Aussies dropped 6000 feet during food service.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash.

The near-catastrophic incident in the Yellow Sea off South Korea on Saturday has caused tension between Australia and its biggest trading partner.

It's the second Boeing incident in two days, after an emergency landing following landing gear failure in Turkey.

Heathrow, the country's largest, was among those hit by a major technical glitch.

Two of the world's richest royal families are flexing multi-billion-dollar war chests to win a battle of the skies.

The fleet will remain grounded until next week as relevant parties discuss the airline's future.

Bonza will ground its entire fleet until later this week pending discussions on whether the budget airline will be able to operate during its voluntary administration period.

Embattled airline Bonza flew tens of thousands of people on routes long ignored by Qantas and Virgin Australia, but Australia's skies are a brutally tough market.

Australia's major airline Qantas has been in freefall when it comes to reputation and customer satisfaction, but the Flying Kangaroo is starting to get its wings back.

A Houston-bound Boeing 737-800 plane operated by Southwest Airlines returned safely to Denver International Airport on Sunday after an engine cover fell off and struck the wing flap, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Airline Qantas has announce a revamp of its frequent flier program, which it says will make it easier for passengers to use their Qantas Points to book flights.

Two people have been rescued after a gyrocopter crashed off the NSW coast.

Sparks could be seen flying from beneath the plane's fuselage as it landed on the runway without its landing gear deployed.

Qantas has launched a landmark new direct flight between Australia and Papua New Guinea.

No country has publicly claimed the construction taking place on Abd al-Kuri Island.

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year after a series of mishaps at one of America's most storied manufacturers.

Officials stopped Captain Lawrence Russell Jr when an X-ray machine detected the bottles in his luggage.

Plane malfunction or pilot error? An umbilical cord running to the tail of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will shed light on the truth.

New Zealand's accident watchdog hopes the flight recorders will explain the cause of the incident that left more than 50 people injured.