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A 26-year-old hot-air balloon pilot, killed in an accident at a Quebec festival on the weekend, may have died trying to help another pilot land his balloon. More...

A pilot at an international hot air balloon festival near Mont-St-Grégoire, Que., has died following an accident. More...

Two men are looking for work, one sees an airport and says, "Lets go over there and ask for work." The other one says "No!" The first man says "Well, I'm going to ask." So he go's to the airport and asks "Are you guys hiring?" The man behind the desk replies, "What can you do?", he...

RCMP have confirmed that the pilot of a plane that crashed on a busy street near the Vancouver International Airport on Thursday afternoon has died. More...

TBS has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot from Conan O'Brien's Conaco, which produces his late night series, and Warner Horizon Television. The untitled, multi-camera sitcom is about a man who quits his job and returns to his old neighborhood, where he reunites with his former best friend. The...

Elizabeth Hurley is coming to "Gossip Girl," guest-starring as a media mogul in multiple episodes of the teen soap. Her character, Diana Payne, is a take-no-prisoners sort whose arrival on the Upper East Side will bring drastic alterations to the lives of the show's scandal-prone inhabitants...

A German passenger stripped naked on an Iberia flight from Madrid to Frankfurt, forcing the pilot to turn the plane around so he could be removed, the airline said Friday. "A German passenger took all his clothes off on the plane," on Thursday night, an Iberia spokeswoman said. "Staff on board...

A 71-year-old pilot survived the crash of his plane during an air show in Nanaimo, B.C. RCMP Const. Gary O'Brien said the Vancouver Island resident was six minutes into an eight-minute routine when his aircraft lost power. O'Brien said the routine was the first of eight scheduled at the local...

Pilot holds flight for man going to see dying grandson (CNN) -- Time was running out, and Mark Dickinson wasn't sure whether he'd get to see his dying 2-year-old grandson one last time. A long line at Los Angeles International Airport's security checkpoint had kept him from getting to his gate...

-- A 14-year-old was arrested late Tuesday after shining a powerful laser light into the eyes of a pilot who was approaching Los Angeles International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The arrest puts a spotlight on what the FAA calls a dangerous problem in recent years. In...

A California-based commercial pilot says the Transportation Security Administration retaliated against him after he posted videos online showing what he described as shortcomings in airport security. A California-based commercial pilot says the Transportation Security Administration retaliated...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/05/bts.ut.plane.crash.ksl After his plane ripped into pieces as it crashed Sunday night in a Utah neighborhood, the pilot was found burned and banged up but coherent, according to a witness. The Cessna 210 single-engine plane went down shortly before 6...

http://www.ketv.com/r/25994324/detail.html OMAHA, Neb. -- The pilot of a light plane walked away from a crash landing just northeast of Omaha's Eppley Airfield on Thursday morning, authorities said. Airport executive director Steve Coufal said the pilot reported engine problems a little after...

Two F-16 fighter jets briefly took to the sky over Washington on Monday after a small passenger aircraft violated the capital's airspace restrictions, according to military officials. A portion of the White House grounds was briefly evacuated during the incident. The passenger plane -- a...

The pilot of an F-22 aircraft that crashed in Alaska while on a routine training mission has been identified as Capt. Jeffrey Haney. Search and rescue crews have found the wreckage of the plane, but the pilot was still missing early Friday morning. The wreckage was discovered Wednesday, a day...

Islamabad, Pakistan -- A small passenger plane carrying 22 people crashed a minute after takeoff from the sea port city of Karachi, officials said. No one survived, said Lt. Col. Noor Alam. Rescue crews have so far pulled out 12 bodies from the plane's wreckage, he said. "The bodies were...

Pilot refuses airport security scan MEMPHIS, -- Officials at a Tennessee airport said a pilot was asked to leave after he refused to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative full-body pat-down. Memphis International Airport officials said pilot Michael Roberts of ExpressJet Airlines...

New York -- One person died and three others were injured Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed near Farmingdale, New York, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilot of the plane was apparently making a practice landing when the incident occurred, said FAA spokesman Jim Peters...

CLARKSON VALLEY, MO — Investigators are on the scene in Clarkson Valley, trying to determine the cause of a Highway Patrol Helicopter crash that killed a veteran pilot. Sgt. Joe Schuengel was killed when his Bell Jet Ranger crashed into an upscale neighborhood of Kehrs Mill Road. It was just...

Authorities: Pilot dropped TP over school WESTWOOD, N.J., -- Aviation authorities said a New Jersey pilot is facing charges for dropping wet toilet paper from his small plane above a middle school. Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the pilot, whose name...