"aviation"

Alaska has made up a growing share of the country’s crashes involving small commercial aircraft, according to an investigation by KUCB and ProPublica.

After just nine months, Island Air Express in Southeast Alaska is ending scheduled service between Petersburg and Juneau on Tuesday.

A charter plane crashed near Medellín, Colombia, on Monday night, killing 71 people. According to leaked audio and witness accounts, the pilot cited “fuel problems” and asked for priority landing.

Aviation High School mixes advanced academics with aviation mechanics — and a paid internship at a big airline.

Experts from Australia and The Netherlands have been trying to get to the debris field of the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine for a week.

The Federal Aviation Administration is now allowing American flights in and out Israel. With that, here’s what you need to know as the conflict in Gaza goes into day 17:

People flying to the U.S. on international flights might want to keep their phones charged: under a new policy, the devices might not be allowed on the plane if they can’t power up.

According to The Maui News, the unidentified teen survived the trip “halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said.”

U.S. airlines got their highest ratings in more than 20 years in 2013, according to an annual survey in which Alaska Airlines came in 5th.

Vietnamese military planes report seeing two oil slicks off the country’s coast that could be a sign of a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet Saturday. Officials say the search for the jet continues and that ships are being sent to the location of the sighting.