How This Airman Survived 3 Months in the Alaskan Wilderness After a World War II Plane Crash Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed...
NTSB Says B-52 Bomber Nearly Hit 2 Different Planes in North Dakota Last Month These close calls were just the latest incidents to raise questions about aviation safety in the wake of January’s midair...
F-35 Pilot Was on Phone for Nearly an Hour with Engineers Before Ejection and Fiery Crash The 39-page crash report, released this week, detailed the circumstances of the fiery crash, which completely destroyed the F...
The Terrible Cost of One Deadly Midair Collision at Naval Air Station Fallon The Fighter Pilot Podcast began rerunning "The Merge" in mid-July, and the final installment of the series is set to be...
A $13 Million Military Drone Was Lost in the Mediterranean Sea Because the Propeller Fell Off The new details, released late last month by Air Combat Command, revealed some of the circumstances that caused the...
Report: Landing Gear Mishap Caused B-2 Bomber to Crash, Catch on Fire in 2022 Incident The B-2 stealth bomber attempted to land on Dec. 10, 2022, after a training mission and experienced a hydraulic system...
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Night Vision Goggles May Have Hampered Black Hawk Pilots Before Crash with Jet, Experts Tell NTSB Aviation experts say night vision goggles may have created some difficulties for the pilots on an Army helicopter that...
NTSB Finds Army Black Hawk in Fatal Midair Crash with Plane Was Above Altitude Limit Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above...
NTSB Hearings Will Focus on Fatal Army Helicopter-Passenger Jet Crash. Here's What to Know The National Transportation Safety Board will begin three days of hearings Wednesday on the fatal midair collision between a...
Navy Commodore Relieved of Duties, First In Role To Lose Job in 2026 The relieved commodore lost the "trust and confidence" of superiors, will retain a staff position.
This Marine Married Chesty Puller’s Daughter and Was Recommended for the Medal of Honor at Khe Sanh In 1967, Vietnam, Capt. Bill Dabney chose the Marine unit closest to the enemy—an instinct that soon put him and his men at...
Pentagon Overhauls Military Moving System After Years of Family Complaints The Pentagon is overhauling its broken military moving system to centralize control, modernize technology and restore trust...
The Last Living Witness to Lincoln’s Assassination Told His Story on a 1950s Game Show Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and heard the...
2026 Military Pay Charts Military service members will receive a 3.8% pay raise in 2026. Some senior officers may receive smaller percentages.