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A wing of an Airbus A380, the world’s biggest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday night.

Officials say a Hawaii-bound Alaska Airlines flight safely returned to Sacramento International Airport after a bird struck one of its engines.

The Federal Aviation Administration has uncovered another incident in which an air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, and the agency's chief told a congressional panel Wednesday the incident was "willful."

The F.A.A. on Thursday suspended the air traffic controller on duty when two passenger jets were forced to land without guidance from the control tower.

The scene at Copenhagen International Airport one recent day was much like that at any airport around the world: passengers hurrying through the terminal, waiting in security lines or lingering at the duty-free shops.

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation ...

Two men including a US soldier have been shot dead at Frankfurt airport. The gunman, believed to be from Kosovo, opened fire on a bus containing US troops in front of Terminal 2. The bus driver and a soldier were killed and two others, thought to be soldiers, were seriously injured.

Cairo's international airport was a scene of chaos and confusion Monday as thousands of foreigners sought to flee the unrest in Egypt and countries around the world scrambled to send in planes to fly their citizens out....

A terrorist suicide bomber is blamed for the Moscow airport attack that killed 31 people and wounded 130 more, Russian state TV reports

The British government has warned the aviation industry of a possible al Qaeda attack, security sources and the BBC said on Friday.