There is plenty of speculation as to why Northwest Airlines flight number 188 flew right past its destination, the Minneapolis airport. Some reports indicate that the pilots fell asleep and had to be alerted by airline attendants. Others report that the pilots were in a heated debate so they went 150 miles past the Minneapolis airport before realizing that they had backtrack. It's all rumor at this point and only the flight recorder knows for sure.

The captain of the Continental Airlines flight 61 from Brussels to Newark died this morning during the trans Atlantic flight. According to CNN, Continental Airlines confirms that one of its pilots died during a flight from Brussels and the plane is about to land in Newark around noon.

Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who saved his passengers and crew by making a phenomenal landing in the Hudson River last month, testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on his landing and, I think even more importantly, on the work conditions pilots and crew must operate in today's economy.

An air hostess helped land an Air Canada jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had an apparent mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean.

At age 11, Vicki Van Meter piloting a plane across the country. At age 12, she flew from the U.S. to Europe. Sadly, at age 26, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

U.S. military officers say two air force pilots are safe after their B-2 Stealth Bomber crashed on the island of Guam. VOA's Kurt Achin is monitoring the situation from Seoul and has this report.

Indonesian authorities arrested the pilot of a Garuda airliner that crashed in March killing 21 people. An international pilots' association denounced this act, claiming further investigation was needed.

As many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima have died from the bombings by the end of 1945 and roughly half on the day of the bombings.

Airline pilots will have more advance warning of potentially hazardous atmospheric conditions such as icing, using a new near-infrared Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system developed by scientists at RL Associates in Chester, Pa.

Two Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots created a new world record by successfully flying a microlight aircraft around the world in 80 days.