Hollywood director Ron Howard has led tributes to Oscar-winning Titanic composer James Horner, who has died at the age of 61.

A US air traffic controller was suspended after being asleep while a medical flight was landing in Nevada.

Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.

Thirty people were injured, one critically, after a United Airlines jet heading for Los Angeles hit heavy turbulence and was diverted to Denver early today.

Nine victims of a mid-air collision between a coastguard aircraft and a US Marine Corps helicopter were feared dead today as the investigation focused on how the crews failed to see each other in a heavily-used military training area.

The US Coastguard said one of its planes collided with a military helicopter off the Southern California coast early today.

An F-18 military jet crashed in a US neighbourhood today, sparking at least one house fire.

As many as eight firefighters and a pilot are presumed dead after a helicopter crashed just after picking up workers battling a blaze in a Northern California forest.

Two medical helicopters collided yesterday afternoon about a half-mile from a northern Arizona hospital, killing at least six people and critically injuring a nurse, a federal official said.

US aviation experts are investigating whether the pilots of an airliner which overshot a Hawaiian airport by 15 miles were asleep.

Richard Branson has backed missing adventurer Steve Fossett to return safe and well.

Two news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided and crashed to the ground, killing all four people on board in a plunge that viewers saw as a jumble of spinning, broken images.

A tour helicopter crashed at an airport on Hawaii’s island of Kauai, killing four people, including the pilot, and critically injuring three.

Two people were killed when a small business jet crashed while taking off from Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles today, federal officials said.

Two aircraft came close to colliding on a US runway at Los Angeles International Airport in the latest near-miss at the world’s fifth busiest passenger airport.