A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington highlights the complexity of navigating an airspace ...

Traditional airports spend big money to install instrument landing systems (ILS) to guide planes in safely. In places like Antarctica, though, it’s simply not possible to permanently install a massive ...

An experienced, instrument-rated pilot fatally crashed a Bonanza while attempting to land in heavy fog at Tucker-Guthrie Memorial Airport (I35). The pilot had a history of regularly disregarding ...

WILLMAR -- Kerkhoven pilot Loren Larson was making an instrumental landing system approach to a runway at the La Crosse Regional Airport in Wisconsin when his single engine Mooney M20P airplane ...

TODAY AND SHE'S REALIZING SHE CAN'T WALK ON HER BURNT FOOT. >> HERE I HIT MY HD EAHURTS. REPORTER: THE MOTHER OF 2 FROM THE TOLEDO OHIO AREA ONE 7 TO SURVIVE THIS. SHE WAS TRAPPED BY FLAMES AND HER ...

Example circling maneuver at Memphis IAP, Tennessee. Author graphic. I used to think of the circle-to-land maneuver following an instrument approach as a necessary evil. We had a lot of airports to go ...

Earning an instrument and a type rating today still demands the applicant successfully fly a circling approach. Despite the FAA’s recent Advisory Circular (AC) 120-123 calling for an increased focus ...