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A hot air balloon pilot died after he fell from it on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont Thursday. Four passengers survived.

A pilot walked away mostly unharmed after crash landing his small plane near an intersection in New Jersey, police said. The pilot had taken off from Robbinsville Airport on Sunday when the 1996 Piper aircraft had mechanical trouble, Lt. William Swanhart said. He performed an emergency landing. “The pilot of the aircraft was observed walking around the area and a…

Bay Area start-ups Xwing and Reliable Robotics are trying to revolutionize aviation with pilotless planes.

Dramatic new video shows the moment a small plane went down on Long Island. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

TJ Kim, a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia, has turned his flying lessons into a lifesaving mission by delivering medial supplies to rural hospitals in Virginia battling the coronavirus pandemic.

Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...

Two U.S. Air Force airmen killed in a training jet crash at Vance Air Force Base in northwestern Oklahoma have been identified as an instructor and a student pilot.

After making the big announcement in a gender reveal party, the pilot of a crop duster stalls his aircraft and crashes in a field.

A preliminary autopsy report has found the pilot whose plane crashed into a house in a New Jersey suburb last week was alive at the time of impact.

As officials comb over the scene of a plane crash in Woodbrige Township, trying to find reasons as to why the plane fell from the sky, the pilot has been identified as a cardiologist from New York City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal and Ray Villeda report.

A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines by a flight attendant alleges pilots on a 2017 flight had an iPad streaming video from a hidden camera in a bathroom in one of the airline’s jets.

Aaron Paul’s character in the popular series “Breaking Bad” was supposed to get killed off at the end of the first season. But producers had a change of heart after witnessing the strong chemistry between his Jesse Pinkman character and Bryan Cranston’s Walter White in a pilot. The decision to keep the story revolved around the duo for five seasons...

Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got...

Video from inside a doors-off sightseeing helicopter that crashed in a New York City river last year shows doomed passengers struggling to free themselves from harnesses as the aircraft fills with water, federal investigators said Monday.

Prepare for a full season of jokes about planes and windmills. Peter Weber will be the next star of “The Bachelor,” as announced on last night’s finale of “Bachelor in Paradise.” Peter came in third place during Hannah Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette,” and he made quite the splash after Hannah revealed they had sex in a windmill four times...

Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic bobsled gold medalist for Canada and one of the top drivers in her sport’s history, is planning to race for the U.S. this coming season and beyond — including at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Humphries has been seeking her release from Canada for several weeks, and she has filed suit against Bobsleigh Canada in an...

Mattel has released new Barbie dolls that pay tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks and astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. The dolls, which were timed to coincide with Women’s Equality Day on Monday, are the latest in the Barbie’s “Inspiring Women” series. Parks was called the “mother of the modern civil rights movement” after she...

A stunt pilot whose plane crashed in New Orleans last week, killing him and local television journalist Nancy Parker, reported unspecified problems shortly after taking off, NBC News reported. The pilot, Franklin J.P. Augustus, had been cleared to return to New Orleans’ Lakefront Airport when the aircraft struck the ground in a nearby field, the National Transportation Safety Board said...

An award-winning local TV news anchor in New Orleans died in a plane crash while working on a story about a stunt pilot, NBC News reports. Nancy Parker, 53, was killed along with the pilot, Franklin J.P. Augustus, on Friday when the plane crashed into a field near the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The cause of the crash in under...