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An Air France pilot has declared it "highly likely" that flight AF447 may have been blown up by a terrorist bomb.

An airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean today by Brazilian military pilots searching for a missing Air France airliner.

The official list of victims will be released by Air France, accordingly to the Brazilian Agency of Civil Aviation (ANAC), but accordingly to information by relatives, friends and assistants, the names listed below were in the flight when it left from Rio to Paris last night.

An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a residential area in east Java early Wednesday, killing 97 people, military officials said.

The Coast Guard says a Navy helicopter with five people aboard has crashed into the ocean 13 miles south of San Diego near the Coronado Islands.

Federal investigators hammered Colgan Air executives about the pay of their pilots -- in 24-year-old Shaw's case, she made between $16,000 and $20,000 a year, according to testimony -- as well as whether they were discouraged from getting second jobs and felt pressure by the company not to call in sick.

Pilot fatigue also is being examined as a factor in the Flight 3407 crash.

Safety investigators were told the pilot in the worst U.S. air crash in more than seven years had trouble learning a critical ...

Authorities say two people were killed in a military helicopter crash in a remote section of the Cleveland National Forest in eastern San Diego County.

A US pilot avoids injury in a crash after his plane's fall is cushioned by a row of portable toilets.

A major search for survivors is under way after a helicopter ditched in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.