"Engine failure, left engine," a pilot can be heard saying in cockpit audio shared online. "Mayday, mayday, mayday." ...

Pilots on a United Airlines flight declared ‘MAYDAY’ shortly after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport ...

The act of an aircraft dumping fuel mid-flight, also known as fuel jettisoning, is not a routine procedure but is undertaken in specific situations when safety and operational considerations ...

The timing of the fuel dump and the fact that it was a polar launch made the blue spiral visible over a large swath of Alaska. "And we got that really cool looking spiral thing," Salat noted.

After dumping the fuel, Gross picked up 8,200 gallons of gasoline from a terminal in Baltimore City, the attorney general’s office alleges.

The plane descended to about 22,000 feet when the crew began to dump the fuel and make a turn back toward New York. The flight was scheduled to fly to Liege Airport in Belgium.

A multi-vehicle crash involving an overturned dump truck is causing major delays Tuesday morning on the outer loop of Interstate 495 near the George Washington Parkway.

Across the American West, a massive glowing streak was seen in the skies last weekend — and an experimental rocket fuel seems to have been its source. As Live Science reports, the spectacular ...