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Emergency responders work the scene after a small aircraft crashed in a neighborhood in Northeast Philadephia, Pennsylvania on January 31, 2025. A small aircraft crashed and sparked a large fire in a built-up neighborhood of Philadelphia on January 31, 2025, prompting a major emergency response, local media reported. A fireball was followed by the ignition of several fires on the ground in a northeastern neighborhood of the east coast US city, the local FOX29 channel showed. (Photo by Kriston Bethel/Getty Images)

Plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia

Alex Galbraith
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed last night on approach to Reagan National Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Aviation expert "embarrassed" by Trump

Matthew Rozsa, Cara Michelle Smith
The silhouette of a commercial airplane flies over skyscrapers (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Aviation's risky mental health paradox

Gabriella Ferrigine
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 11, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

An aviation disaster waiting to happen

Rae Hodge
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A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

UN countries' goal: net-zero aviation

Jake Bittle - Grist
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Cruz named to aviation subcommittee

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
A passenger wearing a mask prepares to board a flight departing the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Getty Images)

Flying maybe not as safe as airlines say

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 file photo, An engine and part of a wing from the 100th 787 Dreamliner to be built at Boeing of South Carolina's North Charleston, S.C., facility are seen outside the plant. (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, File) (AP)

7 rules for the Boeing bailout

Richard J. Eskow - Independent Media Institute
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Europe moves to ban "ghost flights"

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Protest posters in the village of Harmondsworth, which was under threat of demolition because of plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport on February 27, 2020 in London, England. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

UK court blocks Heathrow expansion

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Could better FAA regs have saved Kobe?

Bob Hennelly
Boeing 737 Max (Getty Images)

Union head: Crash report damns FAA

Bob Hennelly
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Last Boeing 747 rolls out of the factory

Janet Bednarek - The Conversation
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Airline CEO: Only a man could do my job!

Rachel Leah
Mark Kelly; Donald Trump (Getty/Brian Ach/Nicholas Kamm)

Astronaut trumps Trump

Gabriel Bell
Donald Trump prepares to board Air Force One (AP/Evan Vucci)

No plane crashes? That's all Trump!

Matthew Rozsa
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In this April 22, 2015 photo, a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey comes in for a landing at Miami International Airport before a presidential visit, in Miami. A fatal crash of a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft in Hawaii has renewed safety concerns in Japan, where more of the Ospreys will be deployed. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (Wilfredo Lee)

3 Marines missing

Charlie May
An image of a Socata TBM700 plane (Screenshot/MSNBC)

Joan Lowy
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Dad, traveling alone with baby

DW Gibson
An Air Algerie plane. (Shutterstock)

The Associated Press
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Associated Press

Angelique Chrisafis
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