STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others tried to return to a North Carolina airport just after takeoff but plowed into light poles and a tree line short of the runway, killing everyone on board.

In a 209-page court filing, the U.S. government said it is among the defendants liable for the damages from the Jan. 29 plane crash.

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape and awaits its radical wing design. With its advanced ...

The JetBlue flight was traveling from Curaçao off the coast of Venezuela to New York City when a pilot spotted the Air Force tanker. U.S. Southern Command operates in this region amid a rise in tension between Venezuela and the U.S., with the Trump administration conducting strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.

The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.

A JetBlue flight was ascending out of Curaçao, near Venezuela, when the pilot spotted an Air Force plane. "It's outrageous," he told ATC.

While at the hospital, a police officer overheard Fredericks telling a doctor he “had been drinking alcohol for the last nine to 10 days,” and was seeing and hearing things.

A JetBlue flight from Curaçao to New York narrowly avoided a midair collision with a US Air Force refueling plane over the Caribbean on Friday.

There is a reason test pilots have a reputation for cool-headed bravery. Historically, it has been a dangerous occupation, with many planes ending testing in fiery explosions or on the seafloor. Some planes didn’t even make it past their maiden flights.