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An airplane that crashed Wednesday evening into a rugged mountain east of Phoenix was carrying three children on a Thanksgiving trip, authorities said. The aircraft, a Rockwell AC 69, crashed about 6:30 p.m. in the Superstition Mountains near Apache Junction, said Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Elias Johnson .

A pilot watched his injured, 78-year-old mother die in the rough waters of the Chesapeake Bay as they both tried to swim to safety after his single-engine airplane crashed and sank more than a mile off the shore of Smith Island, Maryland State Police said Monday....

An ultra-light plane crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in eastern Australia on Saturday, trapping two children on the ride and two adults in the aircraft for hours. There were no serious injuries....

A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed while taking off Wednesday in western Russia, killing at least 43 people and leaving two critically injured, officials said.

The FBI and Homeland Security issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

First Air charter flight, number 6560, was traveling from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay, and was scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island.

American Airlines is buying at least 460 new planes over the next five years in what it calls the biggest airline order in history. And in a victory for Airbus, it's splitting the work between the European plane maker and Boeing....

A small plane crashed into a central California hospital's unoccupied office building and burst into flames just after takeoff.

Boeing Co on Wednesday said its quarterly profit slipped after the company made fewer commercial airplane deliveries than a year ago, and the company predicted a hit to earnings partly from delays to the 787 Dreamliner program.

Arianna Huffington's recent refusal to turn off her mobile during a flight is just the latest example in the debate over whether to allow in-flight cell phone conversations.