A brief ground stop was issued and then lifted at SFO due to safety concerns over closely spaced parallel runways, following new FAA restrictions reducing hourly landings from 54 to 36 to mitigate risks.
Federal Aviation Administration employee Dean DelleChiaie, who allegedly emailed a threat to the White House, faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
A United Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Venice, Italy, struck a light pole and a delivery truck on a New Jersey highway while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport. No injuries were reported on the plane, though the truck driver sustained minor injuries.
A Cessna 421C crashed Thursday night in Wimberley, Texas, killing all five people aboard. The plane was traveling at a high rate of speed when it went down around 11:25pm, having taken off from Amarillo about two hours earlier and heading to New Braunfels National Airport. The FAA and NTSB will investigate the crash. Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said a second aircraft in the area landed safely at the New Braunfels airport.
A small plane crash in Wimberley, Texas, killed all five people aboard Thursday night. The Cessna 421C was traveling from Amarillo to New Braunfels National Airport when it crashed around 11:25pm in the Texas Hill Country area, about 40 miles southwest of Austin. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident.
The FAA grounded Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket after its upper stage failed to deliver AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite to the correct orbit during a Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral. The satellite was placed in a lower-than-planned orbit that is too low to sustain operations and will be de-orbited. The rocket's reusable booster landed successfully. This is the second time the FAA has grounded a Blue Origin rocket, following a 2022 grounding of the New Shepard.
