Discount carrier Spirit Airlines ceased operations on Saturday. It had been struggling with skyrocketing fuel costs and mountains of debt. A proposed government bailout plan unraveled, leaving thousands of passengers, employees and investors in limbo. Ali Bauman reports from Newark’s Liberty International Airport. Source link
A UPS cargo plane had to abort its landing in Louisville earlier this week when a small plane crossed the runway just as it approached. The air traffic controller yelled “Skylab 25, stop!” at the small plane before quickly ordering the UPS plane to pull up and perform a maneuver called a go-around to avert … Read more
A UPS plane had to abort its landing after a Labcorp aircraft approached a runway at Kentucky’s Louisville International Airport, the site of a deadly cargo plane crash last year. A Labcorp plane was on the taxiway and told to hold short of runway 17 to allow a UPS plane to land. The Labcorp pilot … Read more
The runway where a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring several others, has reopened NEW YORK — The runway where a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring several others, reopened Thursday morning. The … Read more
NEW YORK — All but four of the passengers injured in Sunday’s deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck have been released from the hospital, the airline said Wednesday, as crews began moving the mangled aircraft off the runaway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The crash, which remains under investigation, killed … Read more
All but four of the passengers injured in Sunday’s deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck have been released from the hospital, the airline said Wednesday, as crews began moving the mangled aircraft off the runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. A spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and … Read more
New details about what led to plane colliding with fire truck on LaGuardia runway – CBS News Watch CBS News The NTSB is giving new insight about what led up to a deadly collision between a landing plane and fire truck at LaGuardia Airport. Tom Hanson reports. Source link
The two Canadian pilots who died in Sunday’s runway collision at LaGuardia Airport in New York were young, ambitious men at the start of their careers who each had pursued their yearslong dream of flying. Capt. Antoine Forrest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther were operating the Air Canada jet that was landing at New York’s … Read more
Federal officials are on scene at New York’s LaGuardia Airport following Sunday night’s deadly ground collision involving a commercial jet and a fire-rescue truck. Steven Wallace, former director of the Office of Accident Investigation at the Federal Aviation Administration, joins CBS News to preview the probe. Source link
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board gave an update Monday on the deadly ground collision between a passenger jet and a fire-rescue truck at LaGuardia Airport. CBS News’ Jarred Hill joined after the news conference with his takeaways. Source link