Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, according to Egypt’s state-run ...

Investigators are scrutinizing whether a missed instruction from air traffic control and faulty readings from a critical ...

Was a key altitude tracker turned off ... is just one of two systems in the cockpit that would give the crew awareness of how high they were flying. The second, the radar altimeter, is based ...

While flying is statistically safe, passengers play a role in their own safety by adhering to seatbelt signs and following ... and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.

ADS-B, short for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, provides more accurate and real-time tracking of an aircraft’s location, ground speed and altitude ... the crew awareness of how ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said the plane involved in a fatal crash with a Black Hawk helicopter was trying to increase its altitude just before the crash. With a New York doctor ...

Trump said that if the nation had a newer system, alarms would have sounded when the Black Hawk helicopter, which was on a training exercise, reached the same altitude as the plane. But an FAA ...

The Washington, DC-bound widebody aircraft – operating as flight UA613 – suddenly dropped in altitude, according to accounts posted on social media. Shared images show the aircraft’s cabin ...

Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY. He is based in New York and you can reach him at [email protected].

Preliminary data shows the Black Hawk was flying at an altitude of 325 feet at the time of the crash, according to Inman. Reagan National is one of the most congested airports in the country.