Plane collides with hangar, bursts into flames at Columbus-Lowndes airport
A pilot suffered minor injuries and a private plane was destroyed when it struck an aircraft hangar at the Columbus-Lowndes County Airport and caught fire Saturday morning.
Japanese native realizes dream of living abroad in Columbus
By the time she was 20, Tamami Sugo had never been on the back of a motorcycle.
Local pilot gets 10 months in British jail for alcohol
A Columbus pilot has been sentenced to jail time overseas for being under the influence of alcohol while preparing to fly from Scotland to New Jersey.
Local pilot detained for alcohol in Scotland
A Columbus man was one of two United Airlines pilots arrested over the weekend on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol while preparing to fly from Scotland to New Jersey.
German crash co-pilot researched suicide, cockpit doors
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz spent time online researching suicide methods and cockpit door security in the week before crashing Flight 9525, prosecutors said Thursday — the first evidence that the fatal descent may have been a premeditated act.
Alps crash: Bodies recovered, but families must wait months
Just over a week after a Germanwings plane crashed into the French Alps, investigators have finished retrieving human remains from the crash site and are now trying to match them with DNA profiles from the 150 people killed — an arduous task that could leave families waiting for months.
German co-pilot was once treated for suicidal tendencies
How could someone once diagnosed with suicidal tendencies get a job as a commercial pilot, entrusted with the lives of hundreds of people?
German airline could face ‘unlimited’ damages for Alps crash
Lufthansa could face “unlimited” compensation claims for the crash that killed 150 people in the French alps and it would be difficult, even counterproductive, for the German carrier to try to avoid liability, experts said Friday.
Prosecutors: Evidence Germanwings co-pilot hid illness
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said Friday.
US moves pilot-rescue aircraft closer to Syrian battlefields
The gruesome killing of a Jordanian pilot who had crashed in Islamic State territory laid bare a problem of the U.S.-led coalition — there’s no sure way to rescue an airman who’s down behind enemy lines.
Jordan, shaken by Islamic State killing, executes 2
Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn today, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage.
Father of pilot captured by Islamic State pleads for release
The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son’s release on Thursday.
CAFB instructor killed in Texas crash
A Columbus Air Force Base instructor pilot died this weekend after his non-military plane crashed in Texas.
Pilot suicide a taboo topic in past crash probes
As police investigate the two pilots of a Malaysian passenger jet that disappeared more than a week ago, a possibility they must consider — however remote and improbable — is that one of them committed suicide — and mass murder in the process.
Son follows father through pilot school
He crossed the stage inside the Kaye Auditorium at Columbus Air Force Base just like his classmates, but 2nd Lt. Jon Koritz did something special Friday.
When Koritz, a 27-year-old from Chapel Hill, N.C., became one of the 23 newest pilots in the U.S. Air Force, he followed in his father’s footsteps — literally.