Laura J. Brown

Mandatory unpaid furlough days taken Tuesday mostly by air-traffic controllers at airports on the East Coast and at radar facilities in California, Nevada and Texas caused cascading flight delays across the nation, including at Chicago’s two...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, landed safely in California on Friday evening, hours after the 10-seat charter plane carrying her from Omaha to the West Coast filled with smoke and was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver. Ann...

You finally get on board the plane, find your seat, sit down and the clock starts ticking. You pull out your cell phone to text the person picking you up at your final destination or turn on your iPad to send that last email before you hear the PA...

The U.S. Air Force sent two F-16 jet fighters to intercept a civilian plane that had strayed into restricted air space over Washington, D.C., at about 8:30 p.m. Monday. The military planes, based at Andrews Air Force Base, escorted the smaller craft until...

United Airlines has grounded its fleet of 96 Boeing 757s after determining that the planes' air data computer software did not comply with a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive. United began testing its 757s late Tuesday afternoon...

United Continental Holdings Inc. said it voluntarily grounded 96 United Airlines aircraft Tuesday to allow for maintenance checks that had not been completed. The grounding caused at least 17 flights to be canceled and an unspecified number of delays....

WASHINGTON -- For more than a decade, Northwest Airlines repeatedly failed to follow federal safety orders but wasn't held accountable by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a government report. The report by the Transportation Department's...

Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry rushed to pull a suddenly sensitive report from its Web site titled "Industrial Chemicals and Terrorism." The agency eliminated all traces of the document...

Military satellites will routinely take pictures of space shuttles on future flights, under a new agreement between NASA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Sean O'Keefe said Friday that the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Salvaged tape from Columbia's data recorder might hold vital information up until just a few seconds before the shuttle disintegrated over Texas, accident investigators said yesterday. While the 9,400 feet of magnetic tape was...

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Friday that he will seek full disclosure of the information gathered by the board investigating the loss of space shuttle Columbia, even if Congress has to use its subpoena power to get it. "I come from an experience of open...

Flight data salvaged from Columbia debris appear to show that hot gases began to destroy the shuttle's left wing very soon after re-entry began, investigators disclosed Sunday. The new information, recovered from a device called the Orbiter Experiments,...