The parents who falsely reported in October that their 6-year-old son was aloft above Colorado in an experimental helium balloon that accidentally launched have been sentenced to brief jail terms…
Federal, state and local authorities have sent a $42,000 total rescue tab to the parents of a 6-year-old Colorado boy who was feared to be aloft, alone, thousands of feet…
The parents of a 6-year-old boy who was reported to be aloft in an experimental balloon last month but actually was hiding at home in an alleged hoax intended to…
Federal investigators declined to seize and review the laptop computers that two Northwest Airlines pilots now say they were so engrossed by that they forgot they were supposed to land…
In what could be the second such incident involving a commercial airline flight within two years, two Northwest Airlines lost contact with ground controllers for approximately an hour and overshot…
The sheriff of Larimer County, Colo., says he plans to file felony and misdemeanor charges against the parents of a 6-year-old boy who made international headlines last week after he…
An accidental launch today of an experimental helium balloon reportedly sent a 6-year-old boy high into the air above Fort Collins, Colo., alone, as authorities—including the Colorado National Guard, the…
On Sept. 29, 2006, Joe Sharkey survived a midair collision 37,000 feet over the Amazon between a Brazilian 737 and a business jet. All 154 aboard the 737 died when…
A founding partner of a San Mateo, Calif., law firm who took a seven-year detour from his legal career to teach algebra at a public high school is now back…
A scheduled three-hour trip from Houston to Minneapolis on Friday took more than six additional hours when the ExpressJet regional flight operated by Continental Airlines got detoured by bad weather…
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