Like so many other airplane procedures, dimming the cabin lights during takeoff and landing is primarily done for safety reasons, which a pilot and a flight attendant outline below. If you think you ...

A private plane made an emergency landing at Riviera Country Club golf course after the incident in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles on Friday, May 2. The tragic incident took place at around 1 pm ...

A plane made a hard landing at the Sanford International Airport Thursday afternoon. Airport officials said the aircraft landed in grass and then attempted to take off before crashing again.

(For comparison, the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, one of the most popular single-engine aircraft ever made, costs around $400,000. ... these Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing ...

The pilots of a Boeing 737 started to mistakenly take off from a taxiway at a Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller told them to stop, the Federal Aviation Administration ...

A commercial flight was diverted to Jackson's airport.American Airlines flight 1478 was on a non-stop run from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Houston, Texas, Thursday afternoon when it made an ...

He sure did. I only hope his scalp didn't get scraped off during the landing. ... That's gonna be a little tricky seeing as the plane for this mission is a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, ...

The report says the pilot got clearance to land on runway 33, but the airplane was going to fast for touchdown, so he executed a 'go-around' to avoid going off the end of the runway and into trees.

It is safe to call the Cessna 172 Skyhawk a historic aircraft. While it evolved from the 170 taildragger, the early 172 had its own strong identity attributable to its distinctive, squared-off ...

Since rolling out of the Cessna factory in 1979, this Skyhawk has accumulated only 1,589 hours on the airframe and engine. Amounting to an average of about 35 hours of flight time per year, it’s ...