aviation The American Institute of Aeronautics' first official UFO conference Thom Dunn

us news Delta Flight 89 en route LAX for emergency landing dumps jet fuel on school playground in Cudahy — 17 children, 9 adults treated Xeni Jardin

Aeroflot Flight 6502: when a pilot's ego killed 70 passengers Ellsworth Toohey

DOGE cuts Eerie: Passengers stand on wing of burning American Airlines flight in Denver (video) Carla Sinclair

collisions Donald Trump owns the safe skies — until disaster strikes Carla Sinclair

mistakes Southwest pilot removed from cockpit and charged with DUI Rob Beschizza

emergency landings Bizarre: Severe flight turbulence launches passenger into overhead bin — where he gets stuck (video) Carla Sinclair

Fascinating Horror Fascinating Horror on the Apollo One disaster Jason Weisberger

climate change The Guardian profiles the "Tyre Extinguishers" – an international group that deflates tires of SUVs parked on streets Mark Frauenfelder

tourism Ukrainian airline offering aerial tours of Chernobyl David Pescovitz

fake news Tom Cruise's healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White's hooker scandal, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

class war Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened Cory Doctorow

disasters How the worst airline accident in history was avoided Rob Beschizza

aviation Messy: When automated anti-disaster systems make things worse, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow

Business Normalizing deviance: why tech companies repeatedly do stupid, destructive things Cory Doctorow

Business America's airlines send planes to El Salvador, China for service by undertrained technicians Cory Doctorow

russia Rebels seize MH17 plane crash black boxes and bodies, human remains shipped on train to unknown site Xeni Jardin

russia Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 reported shot down in Ukraine near Russian border Xeni Jardin