The FAA on Thursday released the full set of tapes and transcripts related to the Hudson River crash of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 on Thursday. This followed a report on Wednesday that stated that bird remains were found in the plane's engines.

An Airbus A320 airliner owned by Air New Zealand crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Perpignan, killing at least two of a crew of seven, French officials reported on Thursday.

One of the two thrust reversers on an airliner carrying 186 people that crashed in a fireball was turned off when the plane landed, the jet's owner said, as officials tried to determine why it raced down a runway instead of slowing down.