Benjamin Katz

Benjamin Katz, Julia Amann Minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 2117 had lifted from the runway, a phone and power bank sitting in a passenger's lap burst into flames.

Airbus is moving closer to a decision on launching a new aircraft model that would be among the biggest passenger jets ever made and place Boeing's long-delayed 777X directly in its crosshairs.

The Federal Aviation Administration is asking airlines to inspect hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX passenger jets for improperly installed cabin seats that could prove dangerous in the case of an emergency landing or severe turbulence.

The U.S. regulator said it had received a report that seats on some of the planemaker’s MAX jets were incorrectly installed in their tracks.

The U.S. government is swinging behind a fledgling startup's moonshot bid to dislodge Boeing as America's only major maker of commercial airliners.

JetZero’s blended-wing aircraft, the Z4, just got a boost from Washington: a $3 billion loan commitment to help start production.

The water bombers, grounded often for maintenance, are prompting a debate over the country’s readiness ahead of the blazes.

PARIS—An aging fleet of water-bombing planes, which have been grounded frequently for maintenance in recent days, has fueled a debate in France over whether the government was ready for some of the worst wildfires in decades.

Wildfires tearing through a historic region for the sectors have prompted Airbus, Thales and MBDA to shut factories and Dassault to shift sensitive equipment.

Wildfires sweeping through pine forests west of Bordeaux have forced the closure of some of France's most strategically important defense and