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An investigator photographs the front of the plane after a fatal crash on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, in San Diego. Authorities say the pilot was killed in the crash, which was about a half-mile from a San Diego airport. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Pilot killed in crash of small plane near San Diego airfield

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NTSB asks FAA to look at carry-on bags during emergencies

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In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 photo, a low-flying jetliner that just took off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport banks over the Navajo Code Talkers memorial at the Arizona Capitol. Last year’s court victory by Phoenix and neighborhood groups over the Federal Aviation Administration has prompted the agency to be more responsive to residents as it continues to beat back noise complaints around the United States over the air traffic modernization plan known as “NextGen.” (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

Phoenix legal defeat prompts FAA to address noise concerns

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, photo, a survivor, lower right, walks away from the scene of a deadly tour helicopter crash along the jagged rocks of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. (Teddy Fujimoto via AP)

The Latest: NTSB probing post-crash fire system for copter

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Landowners at odds with FAA over aviation equipment on farm

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Delaware startup aims to get a piece of drone market

By JEFF NEIBURG - Associated Press

Laguna Beach reaches settlement with FAA over flight noise

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United flight to Paris diverts for medical issue

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FILE--In this Oct. 24, 2017, file photo, the air traffic control tower is in sight as a plane takes off from San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. An Aeromexico passenger jet was ordered to abort a landing at San Francisco International Airport Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, as it descended toward a runway occupied by another commercial jet, the third close call at the busy airport in six months. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)

FAA investigates latest close call at San Francisco airport

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2014 file photo, the tail of a C5 Galaxy aircraft sticks out the door of Building 125 at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Ga. Radio interference from a farm's massive metal crop-watering structure is causing havoc for air traffic in the sky over Georgia, federal authorities said in a lawsuit filed this week. The irrigation structure is on a south Georgia farm where the Federal Aviation Administration has a radio transmitter to relay signals that keep aircraft on course, according to the federal lawsuit. (Woody Marshall/The Macon Telegraph via AP)

FAA: Farm equipment radio interference threatens air traffic

By JEFF MARTIN - Associated Press

Secure Air Traffic Control Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

National defense concerns preclude the outsourcing of air traffic control

By Pancho Kinney

Plane crash kills 2 people in Hawaii

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2015. file photo, Steve Dreiseszun, a resident of the F.Q. Story historic district in Phoenix, holds a graphic of the increased noise brought on by airplanes flying along new flight paths out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The city of Phoenix and the Federation Aviation Administration said Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, they have come up with a plan aimed at resolving a flap over noisy takeoffs and landings that followed changes in flight procedures at the airport three years ago. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Phoenix, FAA propose plans to lessen aircraft noise

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

FAA awards Albuquerque film company first drone waiver

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Study finds drones more damaging than bird strikes to planes

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2 planes clip wings at New York’s JFK airport

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The air traffic control tower is in sight as a plane takes off from San Francisco International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in San Francisco. The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating why an Air Canada plane ignored repeated orders by an air traffic controller at the airport to abort a landing on Sunday, Oct. 22. The incident comes three months after another Air Canada plane nearly landed on a crowded taxiway at the airport. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Another Air Canada jet safety issue at San Francisco airport

By JOCELYN GECKER and DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017, file photo, vehicles wait outside the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating why an Air Canada plane ignored repeated orders by an air traffic controller at San Francisco International Airport to abort a landing on Sunday, Oct. 22. The incident comes three months after another Air Canada plane nearly landed on a crowded taxiway at the airport. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

US probes 2nd Air Canada jet safety event in San Francisco

By JOCELYN GECKER and DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

In this Sept. 28, 2017, photo, Twila Lake pauses while talking during an interview as the noise from a passenger plane taking off from the Phoenix airport flies near her home in Phoenix. The Federal Aviation Administration is redesigning flight procedures at airports around the U.S. under a program known as &quot;NextGen&quot; to streamline routes for fuel efficiency. But the new airplane routes have prompted noise complaints from San Diego to New York. Airliners began flying over Lakes house in a historic district three years ago, taking off every one to two minutes from the Phoenix airport and roaring over her neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

New flight paths lead to airplane noise complaints across US

By ANITA SNOW and JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2014 file image frame grab from video, provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a test at the FAAs technical center in Atlantic City, N.J. The U.S. government is urging that large, personal electronic devices like laptops be banned from airline checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. (FAA via AP, File)

Questions and answers on proposed ban on laptops in luggage

By JOAN LOWY - Associated Press