An El Al plane at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus. The airline said on Tuesday that it would begin taking home Israelis stranded abroad from Larnaca, Athens, Rome, Milan and Paris.
Officials said they had found the cockpit voice recorder that may provide crucial clues about what caused the Air India flight to crash, killing at least 270 people.
Since its surprise attack on Iran, and subsequent strikes by Tehran, Israel has closed its skies to civilian air traffic, leaving its citizens stuck overseas indefinitely.
Records show that air traffic controllers handling Newark Liberty International Airport flights have grappled with equipment outages since at least 2023, an anxiety-causing situation they call “plug and pray.”
A still image taken from a video released by the official YouTube Channel of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows Mr. Modi at the bedside of Viswash Kumar Ramesh, who survived Air India flight 171.
Families lined up for hours to give DNA samples so the authorities could match names to victims of Thursday’s crash, which killed at least 269 people.
Relatives of Akash Patni, a tea-stall worker who died in the plane crash in Ahmedabad, mourned near the hospital center where health workers are trying to identify the bodies.
The London-bound Boeing Dreamliner went down moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, with 242 people aboard. Dozens more on the ground perished as the plane exploded on the campus of a medical college.
The agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of midair collisions after a military helicopter struck a commercial flight in January, killing everyone on both crafts.
“We didn’t know what to do — it was like our brains stopped working,” said one intern who escaped the building after an Air India jet crashed, killing at least 260 people.
At least 269 people were killed when an Air India plane traveling to London crashed in Ahmedabad, India, an official said. Only one passenger survived.
An investigation will examine what could have prevented an Army Black Hawk helicopter from ramming into an American Airlines flight on Jan. 29, killing all on board both aircraft.
“We have a solemn responsibility to the victims, their families and the flying public to fully understand what went wrong — and to ensure it never happens again,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said.
An investigation will examine what could have prevented an Army Black Hawk helicopter from ramming into an American Airlines flight on Jan. 29, killing all on board both aircraft.
“We have a solemn responsibility to the victims, their families and the flying public to fully understand what went wrong — and to ensure it never happens again,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said.
The confirmation hearing for Bryan Bedford, a commercial airline executive, came as the agency confronts critical staffing shortages and questions about passenger safety.
Bryan Bedford recently criticized the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency President Trump nominated him to lead, for what he called a “lack of strategic vision.”
The senators wrote that the Jan. 29 crash highlighted a dangerous pattern of near misses between military and commercial aircraft around Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged the defense secretary to come to Congress for approval of the jet President Trump wants to use as Air Force One.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the official who formally accepted a Boeing 747 jetliner from Qatar last month, according to a Defense Department spokesman.
Instead of battling over tariffs, Washington and Beijing have turned to a potentially far more harmful strategy: flexing their control over global supply chains.
The jet engine technology that powers airplanes comes mostly from U.S. companies, but the engines can’t function without rare earth minerals that are manufactured largely in China.
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