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US airport worker, who knew just how to take off, safely lands plane after threat to crash into Walmart, arrested: WATCH
•Cory Wayne Patterson, 29, circled for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him
'Milestone moment': Transpilot Adam Harry on DGCA's new guidelines
•Adam Harry, the country's first transpilot, welcomed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation coming out with new guidelines on assessment of fitness of transgender persons who have applied for a commercial pilot license
Japan finds body of pilot two weeks after fighter jet goes missing
•The military said it has confirmed the identity of the body, but did not release the name and added that the search for his co-pilot continues
Meet Laxmi Joshi, one of the pilots of the Vande Bharat Mission, who brought home stranded Indians during pandemic
Trendingdesk •As part of the rescue mission, her first flight was to Shanghai in China and later she flew three rescue flights a month
IAF's MiG-21 plane crashes in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer, pilot dead
•MiG-21 aircraft of IAF, carrying wing commander Harshit Sinha met with a flying accident in the western sector during a training sortie
Air India Express flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Sharjah turns back after take off due to tech glitch
•The plane landed safely at Thiruvananthapuram airport and another flight was arranged for the passengers to travel to Sharjah
Private airline pilot, 30, robbed at gunpoint on IIT-Delhi flyover by masked men; case registered
•A 30-year-old pilot of a private airline was allegedly attacked and robbed at gunpoint by unidentified men on the IIT Delhi flyover here in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
23-year-old woman becomes first female pilot from Maoist-hit Malkangiri; Naveen Patnaik says her success is 'an example for many'
•Jubilant over Lakra's success, her mother said, 'I am very happy. It is a matter of pride for the people of Malkangiri.'
DGCA directs Air India to take strict action against pilot who failed pre-flight alcohol test twice
•Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday asked Air India to take strict action, which may include termination from service, against a pilot who failed pre-flight alcohol test twice, the latest being on Saturday when he was off duty but was scheduled to travel in the cockpit of a plane as an additional crew member
Indonesia expected to release preliminary Lion Air crash report today; findings to shed light on why Boeing 737 MAX fell from sky
•Indonesian investigators are expected on Wednesday to release a preliminary report into the Lion Air plane crash last month that saw all 189 on board killed when the nearly new jet slammed into the sea. The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on 29 October, crashing into waters off Indonesia's northern coast moments after it had asked to return to