A Leominster, Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to open an emergency exit door while aboard a United Airlines flight before stabbing a flight attendant, according to prosecutors. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins’s…

Two flights scheduled to depart from Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning made contact with each other near the gate area, federal aviation and airport officials said. United Airlines Flight 515 was being pushed back from the gate by a tow tug when its right wing struck the tail of United Airlines Flight 267…

RENO, Nev.—The company that owns the medical transport aircraft that crashed in northern Nevada last week, killing all five people aboard, has been tied to two other fatal crashes in the last four years. A review of records shows that with the latest crash, 11 people total have now died on planes owned and operated…

DALLAS—Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California moved eastward Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of Dallas. Tornado warnings issued for Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding areas of Texas…

BERLIN—Several people were injured by turbulence during a flight from the German city of Frankfurt to Mauritius on Thursday, the German news agency dpa reported. Around 20 passengers and crew members on board Condor flight DE2314 were injured when the plane hit turbulence about two hours before landing, an airline spokesperson told dpa. Mauritius is…

STAGECOACH, Nev.—Five people, including medical personnel and a patient, were killed in a plane crash Friday in Nevada, according to the air ambulance company. The Lyon County Sheriff’s office said authorities began receiving calls about a possible plane crash near Stagecoach, Nevada, around 9:15 p.m. and found the wreckage two hours later. Care Flight, which…

EL PASO, Texas—A bomb threat against an American Airlines flight that diverted the plane from the tarmac of a Texas airport Friday was not credible, a law enforcement official said. An FBI official said the passengers on the noon flight from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago were not in danger despite the threat, KVIA-TV reported….

The acting chief of the Federal Aviation Authority issues a call to action over safety after several recent close calls. Those include a plane crossing onto the runway while another was about to take off and a nose dive by a United flight leaving Hawaii. The five former police officers facing charges in the death…

Amid talk of the “safest decade” for American air travel, a Wisconsin congressman scorched the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for shortcomings in its computer security. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said his staff ferreted out facts about the system’s vulnerability while probing the Jan. 11 FAA computer outage that grounded flights nationwide, causing 11,000 flight disruptions….

Southwest Airlines Co. led U.S. airline cancellations on Tuesday as the low-cost carrier struggled to recover from harsh winter weather that has wrecked holiday plans for many. Shares of the Dallas-based airline were down 5.3 percent at $34.19 in morning trade, after it canceled 2,523 flights for Tuesday as of 9.42 am ET. That was…