Indonesia has raised flight warnings around the Mount Sinabung volcano to their highest level after it sent a plume of ash more than 7km (4.4 miles) into the air, turning day into night for people nearby. Areas around the crater of the volcano, located about 1,900km north-west of the capital, Jakarta, on the island of Sumatra have been off-limits for several years because of frequent volcanic activity.

We are running out of people for some especially vital jobs.

Thirteen people died when a Mexican military helicopter crashed Friday during a tour of earthquake damage in Oaxaca state. The chopper was carrying Mexico's interior minister, Alfonso Navarrete Prida, and Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat, who were injured along with more than a dozen others. The state attorney general's office said both men suffered only "slight concussions."

A British Airways aircraft engineer has died after two vehicles crashed in a “serious accident” on the airfield at London’s Heathrow Airport. The collision took place near the “B” gates of Terminal 5, used by BA. The man, in his 40s, was taken to hospital in west London after going into cardiac arrest but later died, according to police and paramedics.

Rockets and turbofans have promised to realize dreams of transportation progress—for decades.

All 71 people aboard a Saratov Airlines plane died when the plane crashed southeast of Moscow on Sunday, Russian state news agency Tass reported.

The airliner was carrying 71 people when it vanished from radar after leaving Moscow for the Urals.

Three people have been killed in a helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon, according to Hualapai Nation police Chief Francis Bradley. The helicopter, a Eurocopter EC130, crashed under unknown circumstances, according to Allen Kenitzer with the FAA Office of Communications. Local authorities say that at least seven people were on board the helicopter.

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport an experimental X-plane the organization has been developing with Lockheed Martin to decrease the strength of sonic booms — has passed an initial design review. It flew successfully in an 2.5-meter by 2-meter (eight-foot by six-foot) supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

Minutes before departure, already buckled into her seat, she was ordered to leave the plane. The gate agent told her that her reservation had been canceled. Traveler Help Desk, the online agency that sold the ticket, had rescinded it because the landlord made a change directly through United — even though United had assured the landlord that it was not a problem to do so.

NASA is developing plane wings that can fold while in the air to make a plane more aerodynamic.

Marilyn Hartman has successfully sneaked onto three flights since 2014 and attempted to breach airport security at least a dozen times.

Norwegian — the low-cost airline that has made headlines for launching the world's longest low-cost flight — is making headlines again. A Norwegian Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner departing from New York JFK reached London Gatwick in 5 hours 13 minutes on Monday — the fastest subsonic transatlantic flight recorded on a commercial aircraft. It beat the previous record of 5 hours 16 minutes.

A severe storm crossed Germany and caused lots of trouble for the pilots which had to land an airplane in Germany. Storm "Friederike" was the strongest storm in Germany since 11 years. Pilots had to deal with wind speeds up to 75knts.

"The plane that's a ship. The ship that's a plane."

The world’s largest passenger aircraft may no longer be manufactured if its only major customer, Emirates, does not order any more.

How bad weather, worse luck, and bad decisions left passengers stuck in parked planes for as long as seven hours.

On Wednesday, Delta Airlines flight 9771 flew from Atlanta to Pinal Airpark in Arizona. It wasn't a full flight—just 48 people on board. But it was a milestone—and not just for the two people who got married mid-flight—for it marked the very last flight of a Boeing 747 being operated by a US airline. Delta's last scheduled passenger service with the jumbo was actually late in December, at which point it conducted a farewell tour and then some charter flights. But as of today, after 51 long years in service, if you want to ride a 747 you'll need to be traveling abroad.

Malaysia's government said Saturday that it has approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years after the plane's disappearance sparked one of aviation's biggest mysteries. The U.S.-based company Ocean Infinity dispatched a search vessel this past week to look in the southern Indian Ocean for debris from the plane, which disappeared March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members.