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LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) -- Federal regulators say the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department should have sought takeoff clearance before showing off a new drone for the press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators and aircraft manufacturers are concerned with a lack of standards in determining when it is safe to land an airplane in bad weather.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. federal regulators will investigate a complaint from three Alaska Airlines mechanics that they found no grease on the jackscrew of an MD-83 jet.

WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is considering legal action against British Airways, which flew a jet with one engine out from California to England.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A previously undisclosed report from the U.S. Sept. 11 commission shows the risk of suicide aircraft attacks was known months prior to the 2001 attacks.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have reopened four U.S. airports, closed because of a major power outage in the Northeast, but say Ottawa and Toronto in Canada remained closed.

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The blue-ribbon panel tasked with discovering how the Sept. 11 hijackers were able to kill about 3,000 people was told Thursday that the aviation security syste

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 30 (UPI) -- Data extracted from shuttle Columbia's salvaged flight recorder and released Sunday lend further credence to theories that the damage that caused its break-up and the deaths of seven astronauts took place before its failed attempt to return to Earth.