A sheriff's department plane carrying inmates collided with another small craft in the air over western Colorado. Both aircraft landed safely.

Sunny Perth in Western Australia will host the final showdown of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship on the 1st and 2nd November where the 2008 title will be decided between Austria’s Hannes Arch and Britain’s Paul Bonhomme.

Just one nautical mile of vertical separation avoided disaster on the Atlantic today.  A Delta Airlines Boeing 747 and a Russian Registered Transaero Boeing 737 came dangerously close.

The air traffic control systems at airports in the United States returned to normal after a computer system glitch caused hundreds of flight delays across the East and the Midwest.

Four are dead after a Hughes MD 500 plunged into a icy, swift flowing river near Prince Rupert British, Columbia.