U.S. airports were not expected to see flight delays today after a computer problem Thursday that began at one of two national centers that handle flight plans. ...more

November 20, 2009

Airports nationwide including Tampa International will continue to experience flight delays today although the Federal Aviation Administration corrected a technical problem that began at one of two national centers that handle flight plans. The failure was attributed to a software configuration problem at an FAA telecommunications center in Salt Lake City that lasted from 5 to 9 a.m. ...more

November 19, 2009

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — An airline is pitching in with a new discount offer to help lure more passengers to a western Kentucky airport striving to qualify for extra funding from the Federal Aviation Administration. ...more

November 18, 2009

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The crowded airspace over the Hudson River, where nine people died in the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, will be split into a low-altitude zone for local traffic and a higher one for longer-distance flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said today. ...more

November 16, 2009

Two men whose plane crashed in rural Pasco County on Sunday are in critical condition, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 27, 2009

Two men whose plane crashed in rural Pasco County on Sunday are in critical condition, according to Pasco sheriff's office officials. Pilot Arthur J. Michaud, 49, of 10524 Merlin Drive, New Port Richey, and Anthony Parisi, 46, of 3055 Sugar Bear Trail, Palm Harbor, crash-landed at Pilot Country on State Road 52 in Shady Hills about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. ...more

October 26, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 24, 2009

The two Northwest Airlines pilots should have had numerous warnings that their flight was nearing its destination in Minneapolis. Controllers were trying to reach the plane by radio. ...more

October 23, 2009

Authorities say a plane with four people aboard has crashed in the Florida Everglades, with rescue teams finding no survivors. ...more

September 21, 2009

Two men are hospitalized after a small plane crashed in a lake in Winter Haven this morning, Winter Haven police said. The plane, a 2005 SeaRey, crashed into Lake Otis at 10:31 a.m. after it suffered what the pilot told police was a catastrophic engine failure. The pilot, John Sugar, 43, of Winter Haven, was taken by ambulance to Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Police did not know the extent of his injuries. The plane's owner, John Curtis, 64, also of Winter Haven, was flown to the same hospital with injuries that police described as serious. ...more

September 17, 2009