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News Articles: aviation

An Avelo Airlines jet on the tarmac at Hollywood Burbank Airport in 2021. The budget airline is set to begin operating deportation flights next month for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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  • National

Budget airline Avelo faces backlash for signing up to fly deportation flights for ICE

Facing financial headwinds, budget carrier Avelo Airlines struck a deal to operate deportation flights for ICE. Now it's dealing with angry customers and politicians at its hub in Connecticut.

April 30, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
MGA’s School of Aviation is located on the university’s campus in Eastman. Photo courtesy of MGA.

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  • Education

​​Delta, MGA partner to fuel Clayton County pilot pipeline with $2.5M grant

The Middle Georgia State University School of Aviation will receive a $2.5 million grant thanks to the Delta Air Lines Foundation, enabling more students to study to become pilots.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Helene Hall and
  • The Macon Melody

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  • National

Map: A look at helicopter traffic patterns over D.C.

The airspace above Reagan National Airport, where a commercial plane collided with an Army helicopter this week, has become increasingly congested with air traffic, including helicopters.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Emma Bowman,
  • Daniel Wood,
  • and 1 more
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed last night on approach to Reagan National Airport on Thursday in Arlington, Virginia. The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided in midair with a military helicopter while approaching the airport. According to reports, there were no survivors among the 67 people on board both aircraft.

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  • National

Map: See the aircraft's paths before they collided near Washington, D.C.

Investigators say there are likely no survivors in the deadly aircraft collision that occurred Wednesday evening above the icy waters of the Potomac river.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise,
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin,
  • and 1 more
The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show at the Sphere in Las Vegas featured a Delta Air Lines presentation where the airline kicked off its 100th anniversary. (Courtesy of Delta Air Lines)

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  • News

Delta celebrates 100th year with new announcements at CES 2025

Delta Air Lines kicked off its 100th anniversary at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

January 08, 2025
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 takes off from the Tampa International Airport in Florida on May 15, 2014. Two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night, the airline said.

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  • National

2 bodies found in JetBlue plane's landing gear compartment at a Florida airport

The bodies were located in the wheel well area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. It's the second time over the past month that a body has been found in the wheel well of an airplane.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
FILE - A Delta Air Lines plane leaves the gate July 12, 2021, at Logan International Airport in Boston. A Delta flight from Seattle to Honolulu was delayed on Tuesday afternoon after an unticketed passenger was discovered onboard the aircraft.

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  • National

Delta apologizes — again — after another stowaway boards a flight without ticket

The incident marks the second time in less than a month that an unticketed passenger was discovered on a Delta Air Lines flight, this time en route to Hawaii.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
Timber. (Pexels)

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  • Politics

Georgia lawmakers looking to promote emerging markets for timber

The state should actively promote developing sustainable aviation fuel and mass timber construction as emerging markets for a struggling timber industry, a legislative study committee recommended Thursday.

November 08, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
FILE - In this photo provided by Japan Coast Guard, debris believed to be from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft is seen off the coast of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, Nov. 29, 2023. (Japan Coast Guard via AP, File)

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  • National Security

Osprey crash was caused by pilot's decision to keep flying with cracks in a gear

The crash last November off the coast of Japan killed eight. The Air Force said the pilot decided to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that he should land.

August 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Boeing is changing how it trains new recruits at the factory near Seattle where it assembles the 737 Max, part of a broader effort to improve quality after a midair blowout. 737 Max aircraft are seen in various states of assembly at the Boeing factory in Renton, Wash., on Tuesday.

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  • Business

At the factory that builds the 737 Max, Boeing rethinks how it trains new hires

Troubled plane maker Boeing is changing how it trains new recruits at the factory near Seattle where it assembles the 737 Max, part of a broader effort to improve quality after a midair blowout.

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles.

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  • News

Futuristic electric flying vehicles about to become reality in Georgia

Flying cars might seem like something out of the distant future. But Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), as the technology is known, is about to land at a general aviation airport near you.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
LanzaJet's Freedom Pines facility is located in Soperton, Georgia, about halfway between Savannah and Macon.

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  • Environment

Rural Georgia gets world's first sustainable jet fuel factory of its kind

Suburban Chicago-based LanzaJet unveiled on Wednesday its Freedom Pines facility in rural Soperton, about halfway between Savannah and Macon, before an audience of more than 200 people including state and federal government leaders.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
A Gulfstream G600 jet is fueled prior to departure for a historic test flight Sunday from Savannah to England using sustainable aviation fuel.

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  • Technology

Savannah-based Gulfstream performs world's first transatlantic flight to use sustainable jet fuel

The test flight will be studied to refine industry use of the technology.

November 24, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The Freedom Pines Fuels facility, under construction in Soperton, is slated to become the first commercially operated sustainable jet fuel refinery in North America, according to owner LanzaJet.

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  • Environment

Factories, farms and flight: How Georgia could propel sustainable jet fuel into the future

Ethanol — and a quirky crop — could pave the way for the Peach State.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
During his flight on Monday, "As I turned to my left and looked down, I could see the head of the snake receding back underneath my seat," pilot Rudolf Erasmus says. "At which point there was a moment of stunned silence, to be brutally honest." He turned the plane around and landed safely at a nearby airport.

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  • World

He felt the slither of a venomous snake in the cockpit — then turned the plane around

South African pilot Rudolf Erasmus made an emergency landing after discovering a Cape cobra accompanying him in the cockpit on Monday. The snake has not been found again since the plane landed.

April 06, 2023
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
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