Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, an automatic landing system called Autoland was used to land a plane in Colorado after pilots reported losing ...

When you’re flying in a small plane, the possibility of the pilot becoming incapacitated is usually filed in the very-unlikely-to-happen category. But it happens, and with no other pilot on board, ...

In late 1965, at what’s now London Heathrow airport, a commercial flight coming from Paris made history by being the first to land automatically. The plane – A Trident 1C operated by BEA, which would ...

Forty years ago, Alan Klapmeier, the co-founder of aircraft manufacturer Cirrus, was involved in a midair collision. With his plane missing part of a wing, Klapmeier was (just barely) able to land, ...

Russia’s domestically-powered Yakovlev MC-21-310 is conducting a series of automatic landing tests as part of its certification programme. Prototype 73051 carried out the landings, under ICAO Category ...