He taxied over to runway D33, angled towards the blue sky and took off. Pilot Dave Ross (left) talks to a passenger in the cockpit of the Liberty Ford Tri-Motor 5-AT-B at Oswego County Airport on ...

A new investigation revealed a rash of airplane close calls on runways and in skies. In January, a Delta plane almost collided with an American Airlines flight that was on the wrong runway at JFK.

The Airbus A340 airplane was built to rule long-haul travel. ... three-quarters of the full runway. ... it’s likely that the A340 will disappear from the skies entirely within a decade or two. ...