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A third runway at Heathrow should be blocked, climate campaigners say, despite the expansion being described as "critical to national growth".

A pilot has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a light aircraft before landing it in the middle of a sunflower field near a nuclear power plant.

A 23-year-old pilot walked away from a plane wreck unscathed after deliberately landing her twin-engine plane in the Atlantic Ocean.

Norwich Airport is to shut down entirely for a day after air traffic controllers confirmed a full-day walkout over an unresolved pay dispute.

The busiest airport in Australia has just received the green light for a multi-billion expansion project – expected to take 20 years to complete.

A British Airways baggage container burst into flames minutes after being unloaded from an aircraft.

American Heart Aerospace conducted the first flight of the full-scale electric demonstrator aircraft X1, which the company calls the world’s largest battery-powered aircraft ever to take to the skies. During the 27-minute flight, it used approximately $5 worth of electricity.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the deaths of two people after an experience flight crashed into a field in Essex.

Thirteen people were killed in a plane crash during a sightseeing flight over Peru’s famous Nazca Lines.

Police are investigating a hoax threat made by a 14-year-old boy to an aircraft heading to Manchester Airport.

Emergency services have raced to the scene of a plane crash off the coast of a remote island, with all 11 persons on board managing to escape from the aircraft an explosion took place.

Three pilots on board a British Airways flight suffered food poisoning while mid-air – almost exactly mirroring the plot of hit comedy, Airplane.

Some 74 years after a Pan American Airways flight crashed into the water off the coast of Puerto Rico, an aviation search team said it found the wreckage sitting on the ocean floor.

The captain decided to return ‘due to the danger it posed to the safety of the flight’, the air traffic controller said

Loganair has temporarily scrapped flights across Scotland’s islands due to operational losses triggered by rising fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East

Emergency services rushed to a UK airport following an "incident" involving a light aircraft. Crews were called to Hawarden Airport in Flintshire, North Wales, on the border with Cheshire.

A light aircraft pilot wrote "I’m bored" during a two-hour test flight - with his mischievous flight path appearing on an online tracking app.

A shoking new video appears to show the shattered engine of the plane where a passenger was sucked out of the window“up to his shoulders“.

Search crews have recovered the wreckage of a plane that disappeared off the coast of Pakistan after losing contact with air traffic control during a flight from the United Arab Emirates.

For 16 months at the dawn of the 1980s, some of Texas’ wealthiest business travelers paid a premium for what seemed like the ultimate aviation experience.