https://www.scmp.com/rss/522323/feed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): A prominent Washington, D.C.-based governmental body, the FAA is a U.S. federal agency dedicated to ensuring the safest, most efficient aerospace system globally. Its primary mission involves regulating civil aviation, including air traffic control, aircraft and personnel certification, and airport standards. The FAA also focuses on research, developing new aviation technology, and overseeing commercial space transportation. Recognised for pioneering... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport. The FAA said in a social media post that it has lifted the temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso, saying there was no threat to commercial aviation and that all flights will resume. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on social media... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343217/el-paso-texas-airport-grounds-all-flights-due-special-security-reasons-10-days?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343217/el-paso-texas-airport-grounds-all-flights-due-special-security-reasons-10-days?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:35:42 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Two helicopters crashed mid-air in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities said. Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters. The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a mid-air collision between an Enstrom... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337960/1-dead-another-injured-mid-air-helicopter-crash-new-jersey-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337960/1-dead-another-injured-mid-air-helicopter-crash-new-jersey-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:54:28 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse More than 1,000 flights were cancelled across the US on Friday after the Trump administration ordered reductions to ease strain on air traffic controllers working without pay amid a federal government shutdown. Forty airports were slated for the cuts, including major hubs in Atlanta, Newark, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles. With Republicans and Democrats in a bitter stand-off, particularly over health insurance subsidies, federal agencies have been grinding to halt since funding lapsed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331996/us-airline-chaos-cancels-800-flights-budget-crisis-hits-air-traffic-control?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331996/us-airline-chaos-cancels-800-flights-budget-crisis-hits-air-traffic-control?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:33:23 +0000 Reuters Reuters Russia appears to be preparing to test its new nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered cruise missile, according to two US researchers and a Western security source, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin readies for talks on Ukraine with US President Donald Trump on Friday. Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and Decker Eveleth of the CNA research and analysis organisation, based in Virginia, reached their assessments separately by studying imagery... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3321776/putin-appears-ready-test-new-missile-he-prepares-trump-talks-researchers-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3321776/putin-appears-ready-test-new-missile-he-prepares-trump-talks-researchers-say?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:47:32 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A passenger jet heading to Las Vegas from Southern California in the United States took a dramatic plunge shortly after take-off on Friday in response to an alert about a nearby plane, sending some passengers flying out of their seats and injuring two flight attendants. The plane suddenly jolted shortly after take-off then felt like it was falling, said Stef Zamorano, who was flying to Las Vegas with her husband to celebrate his birthday. In front of her, Zamorano saw a woman who was not wearing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3319670/las-vegas-bound-plane-drops-300-feet-after-mid-air-collision-warning-uk-fighter-jet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3319670/las-vegas-bound-plane-drops-300-feet-after-mid-air-collision-warning-uk-fighter-jet?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:34:42 +0000 Lawrence Chung Lawrence Chung The United States and Taiwan are exploring the possibility of a groundbreaking spaceport partnership that could slash travel time between them from over half a day to only a couple of hours. According to the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), which functions as the de facto US embassy in the absence of formal ties, the proposed collaboration will focus on suborbital flights – an emerging form of space transport in which a vehicle briefly exits the Earth’s atmosphere before re-entering and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319170/us-taiwan-spaceport-may-cut-houston-taipei-travel-time-little-2-1/2-hours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319170/us-taiwan-spaceport-may-cut-houston-taipei-travel-time-little-2-1/2-hours?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:02:24 +0000 Sean Dix Sean Dix In the beginning, there were no separate smoking sections because everybody smoked everywhere. And I mean everywhere: with kids in the car, in cinemas, buses, trains, McDonald’s (and everyone else’s) restaurants, maternity wards, doctors’ clinics, supermarkets, lifts, bathrooms, classrooms and aeroplanes. Pretty much the only place you couldn’t smoke was at the petrol pump. Even kids like me got in the act, “smoking” ever-popular candy cigarettes. (It made me look cool and grown-up, just like... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/article/3317655/smoking-planes-has-been-banned-years-so-why-are-there-still-ashtrays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/article/3317655/smoking-planes-has-been-banned-years-so-why-are-there-still-ashtrays?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:00:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Three men remained hospitalised in critical condition and five others were listed as serious on Thursday, the morning after a skydiving plane with 15 people aboard crashed into a wooded area near a small airport in southern New Jersey. The single-engine Cessna 208B radioed about having engine trouble after take-off and crashed on landing Wednesday evening near Cross Keys Airport, about 21 miles (34km) southeast of Philadelphia, authorities said. An initial report posted on Thursday by the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316868/us-skydiving-planes-crash-after-take-leaves-8-hospitalised?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316868/us-skydiving-planes-crash-after-take-leaves-8-hospitalised?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:05:17 +0000 Biman Mukherji Biman Mukherji When nearly 300 lives were lost in a fiery crash outside Ahmedabad earlier this month, the future of Air India – and faith in Indian aviation itself – was thrown into turmoil. Now, Tata Group’s chairman has assumed direct command of the embattled airline’s day-to-day operations, determined to chart a path out of the crisis following one of modern aviation’s deadliest disasters. On June 17, just five days after the crash, Natarajan Chandrasekaran stood before 700 sombre Air India employees in New... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3316135/tata-takes-helm-air-indias-fight-rebuild-trust-after-deadly-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3316135/tata-takes-helm-air-indias-fight-rebuild-trust-after-deadly-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:30:08 +0000