Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is launching a new search for Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage, as the 75th anniversary of the pilot's disappearance approaches. On July 2nd, 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island, and searches at that time were fruitless. Since then, a number of conspiracy theories have been formed, including one from an episode of National Geographic's Undiscovered History in 2006, which claimed Earhart survived the flight, moved to New Jersey, changed her name, remarried and became Irene Craigmile Bolam. more ›

Because Gerard Depardieu will be playing a Dominique Strauss-Kahn-type figure in an upcoming film by Abel Ferrara, it's important to see why Depardieu is considered one of the greatest French actors of all time. For instance, here he is, reliving his infamous pissing-all-over-a-plane incident from last year—he even reenacted how the flight attendant freaked out! more ›

In August 1929 a Brooklyn man completed a massive DIY project: he built a plane in his apartment! According to Modern Mechanix, neighbors kept hearing loud noises from Peter Lepicer's digs, and for months he would simply tell inquiring minds, "Wait and see." more ›

Yesterday, Suffolk County authorities announced that 21-year-old David Smith was arrested for pointing a laser at a plane. And he didn't stop there—when a police helicopter flew above to find the offender, the suspect turned continued his illegal activity: Suffolk County police inspector Stewart Cameron said, "We sent one of our helicopters to investigate and it was also lased." Don't lase me, bro! more ›

Yes, lasers are cool, but that doesn't mean you should go around shining them at planes and potentially blind pilots! Yesterday, the Suffolk County Police arrested a 21-year-old Long Island man for his laser antics. more ›

[UPDATED BELOW] Developing! It seems that actor, and future mayor of New York, Alec Baldwin has been booted from his flight out of LAX. So far the only confirmations are from fellow passengers—Grant Cardone Tweeted around 4:15 p.m.: "Alec Baldwin is getting kicked off of AA flight as I tweet this!" Which was followed by a Tweet from Michael J. Wolf, saying, "On an AA flight at LAX. Alec Baldwin removed from the plane We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to wait." Don't these people have camera phones? We'll update when we have more details. more ›

Yesterday, a Continental flight headed to Newark Liberty Airport had to make an emergency landing after taking off from Panama City's airport because of a bird strike. WCBS 2 reports, "According to airline officials, Flight 1022, a Boeing 737-900 with 176 on board, took off from Tocumen Airport at 10:05 a.m., but quickly ran into a trouble when the bird strike caused the left engine to catch fire." more ›

Some new details have emerged in the unusual urinary in-air incident involving a drunk teen skier and an unwitting 12-year-old girl. Okay, there's only one new detail about Robert "Sandy" Vietze's alleged pissing-while-in-a-passenger row on a JetBlue flight bound for JFK, but it's a big one: The girl's dad says she wasn't peed upon. more ›

The saga of the 18-year-old who, during a drunken stupor, then urinated on the 12-year-old girl on his flight continues. Robert "Sandy" Vietze was hit with a federal indecent-exposure charge. The charges detail that he was drinking before he ever got to Portland International Airport (therefore JetBlue did not serve an underage passenger!). more ›

A small plane crashed in Armonk yesterday, killing four people, including two 14-year-old girls. The plane, which was piloted by Manhattan resident Keith Weiner and contained his wife, daughter, and her friend, had just taken off from Westchester County Airport when he contacted an emergency control tower to say they needed to make an emergency landing. "He was such a good pilot. He was meticulous, so careful. We used to practice what would happen in the event of an emergency like this -- something had to have gone horribly wrong," his 85-year-old father William Weiner, also a pilot, told the Post. more ›

Last night, a small plane which had taken off from Farmingdale, Long Island, made an emergency landing on Rockaway Beach near Beach 56th Street. The pilot, James Maloney, 24, and his two passengers, Clarke Oler, 22, and Chelsea Protter, 21, were injured, but Maloney could be in trouble—it turns out he wasn't given permission to make the landing more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a fuel truck collided into a Delta Airlines plane at LaGuardia Airport. According to NY1, Delta said "all 106 passengers aboard flight 2879 were sitting down and the plane wasn't moving when the accident occurred." However, the flight, which was scheduled to fly to Fort Lauderdale, was canceled. more ›

Last year we looked back at the in-air plane crash that sent the wreckage of a United Airlines flight onto the streets of Park Slope, and a TWA aircraft onto Staten Island. This December 16th will mark the 50th anniversary of the crash, and the Brooklyn Paper revisits it today, noting that there isn't much of a memorial in the neighborhood, but still some locals left who witnessed the tragedy. more ›

Celebrities, they're just like us! Except sometimes they're entitled douchebags sitting in first class and acting like the laws don't pertain to them, only to the cattle in the back. Like young Josh Duhamel for example (we know, he seems so nice in the movies!). According to TMZ, Duhamel was on a flight from New York (LGA) to Kentucky yesterday and he flat out refused to turn his BlackBerry off—a move that eventually got him kicked to the curb. more ›

This video of an RC plane flying over Downtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn and Verrazzano Bridges... is nothing short of awesome. Plus, it comes with instructions on how to build your own—so, yeah, hold all our calls please, we'll be in the work shed. more ›

In case you've set your RSS feed only to Justin Bieber-related information for the past couple months, people have been none too chipper about the TSA full-body scanners and full-body pat downs which have taken over our airports this holiday season. But one woman didn't find getting digitally naked to be satisfyingly invasive enough; she took it a step further, and stripped naked mid-flight on a plane from Chicago to JFK last night. And worst of all, she broke the first rule of doing-something-crazy club, and did it in front of a reporter! more ›

A few more details about yesterday's incident where Air Force 2 (carrying Vice President Joe Biden back to Washington D.C.) knocked over a plane at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach: According to Newsday, "About 11 a.m., Biden's plane, a Boeing 757, was on a ramp and began a turn toward a runway when 'jet blast' caused a Piper PA-18 to flip over. The Piper was parked, tied to the ground and sustained left wing damage." No one was in the Piper, so there were no injuries. more ›

Sigh. When will airline passengers with nicotine addictions realize that smoking on a plane causes problems? Yesterday, American Airlines Flight 117 from JFK Airport, bound for Los Angeles, was diverted to New Mexico allegedly because a passenger was smoking in a bathroom. more ›

It looks Photoshopped, but it's not. This plane shows up in the satellite view over the Bushwick Houses in Google Maps—see for yourself. Untapped New York points out that "the official imagery date is June 18th, 2010 and the plane appears in both Google Earth and Google Maps, but not in the street views which are from 2009." more ›

Passengers on a U.S. Airways flight bound for NYC were evacuated from the aircraft before takeoff Monday after maggots crawled out of an overheard compartment. As the plane was taxiing, passenger Donna Adamo heard another passenger behind her causing a commotion and refusing to take her seat. "Then I heard the word 'maggot' and that kind of got everybody creeped out," she tells the AP. "The maggots, they started to drip out of the bin in row 15... All of a sudden, I felt somebody flick the back of my hair and on the front of me came a maggot, which I flicked off me." Let's go to the videotape! more ›

In what the Post is calling a "High-stakes croaker," Long Island poker star Paul "Smalls" Kitsos died on a flight to the World Series of Poker from an apparent heart attack. The 5' 11", 350-pound man was "sweating profusely and breathing heavily" about 20 minutes after takeoff when he called a flight attendant over for help. The attendant was soon not able to detect Kitsos' pulse, and a doctor on board pronounced him dead. The flight was forced to return to JFK Airport, and it apparently took four cops to lift Kitsos from his seat. more ›

Mayor Bloomberg's ambitious PlaNYC2030 initiative is one of the cornerstones of his green administration, an attempt to cut the City's carbon footprint by 30 percent by 2030. But Bloomberg is also a pragmatist, so the fact he needs his own private Dassault Falcon 900 jets to travel is justifiable, despite the carbon contradiction. But after a mention by NYPD Commisioner Ray Kelly that he gets lifts to Florida for vacations by the Mayor, it begs the question: who else exactly is getting lifts on Air Bloomberg? more ›

The Park Slope set's rally against aircraft noise is still going strong in the neighborhood. Last night they went face to face with federal aviation officials to describe the overhead aural assault that they face daily. Jim Williams of Brooklyn Against Aircraft Noise (it's a thing!), told them: “We can’t sit on our deck anymore! Every minute — whoosh whoosh! We can watch them fly overhead.” Not feeling any sympathy for the guy who has the luxurious deck? According to the Brooklyn Paper, there was also a resident who said her cancer was exacerbated by low-flying planes. more ›

“My earliest memory was at dinner with Dad using a knife to show us how the controls of a plane worked,” Elinor Smith told The New York Daily Mirror in 1942. At 16 she got her flying license; at 18 she set records for altitude and endurance by a female pilot; at 23 she became the first woman to have her picture on a Wheaties box; and recently at the old age of 98 she died, reports the Times. Known as the “Flying Flapper of Freeport” the Long Island native was one of the youngest flying pioneers in history and the first female test pilot for two major aircraft companies. more ›

The Rangers took an unexpected hit when they were en route to their game in Boston on Saturday... by a goose! The Post notes that a goose hit the wing of the team's plane, which caused an emergency landing. According to NJ.com, their Boeing 737 was grounded in White Plains, where they were then split between two small jets and two six-passenger helicopters. All that and they lost the game to the Bruins yesterday afternoon. And geese: you better watch your back (this is the 2nd time this month the bird has made it to the pages of the Post again). more ›

Are Canada geese fighting back at the NY Post? The plucky tabloid reports that a flock of the birds struck a Boeing 777 that left Newark for Hong Kong on Wednesday: "The pilot told controllers the geese hit the left wing of the craft, which was fully loaded with fuel for the 16-hour flight." And among the 301 passengers—a Post reporter! more ›