A Portuguese airline has apologised for keeping more than 100 passengers stranded at Stuttgart airport after one of its flights was cancelled at the last-minute because of a drunken co-pilot.

A Sea King helicopter, one of the world’s most iconic search and rescue aircraft, is to be named after Capt Dara Fitzpatrick who was among four crew killed in the Rescue 116 tragedy.

A Dublin-based Ryanair pilot has “reluctantly” stepped forward and written an open letter to Michael O’Leary publicly criticised the stance it has taken on negotiating with the airline pilots collectively.

Boeing is looking to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots, and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world’s biggest planemaker said ahead of the Paris Airshow.

Russian and French dignitaries have paid their respects to a pilot in a French-Soviet squadron that fought the Nazis on the eastern front together in the Second World War.

A 71-year-old British pilot attempting to fly a 1940s plane the length of Africa has been found after going missing for the second time.

A British pilot who had gone missing while flying a 1943 Piper Cub plane from Sudan to Ethiopia has been found safe and well.

One pilot was killed and another injured when they ejected from a U-2 spy plane shortly before it crashed in Northern California, the US Air Force has said.

Don’t mess with this guy.

The families of victims killed last year when a suicidal pilot flew an airliner into a mountainside in the French Alps have filed a lawsuit against the US flight school where he was trained.

A doctor referred Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to a psychiatric clinic two weeks before he crashed a plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, French air accident investigators have revealed.

A suspected suicide bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane last week and forced it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, the Daallo chief executive said.

An easyJet flight from Gatwick Airport has been forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot fell unconscious mid-flight.

An American Airlines flight to Boston has made an emergency landing in New York after the captain became ill and later died.

The skill involved is ridiculous.

Totally professional!

Proof that arms aren't necessary for a good hug.

Always carry out a cat check before taking off.

And she had the most fun ever.

An airline pilot due to fly more than 250 passengers from London to Hong Kong has been arrested at Heathrow for alleged possession of knives.

A mental breakdown or a period of depression would not necessarily preclude a pilot from flying a plane in the future, according to European rules.

One of the pilots of the crashed Germanwings jet can be heard in a 'black box' recording leaving the cockpit, then banging on the door with increasing urgency in an unsuccessful attempt to get back in, a US newspaper report has suggested.

England: A father and son pilot duo have taken to the skies together for the first time.

A Virgin Atlantic pilot accused of attempting to fly a plane under the influence of alcohol has been told he cannot leave the US.

A Virgin Atlantic pilot detained by police in Washington has been charged with attempting to operate an aircraft while under the influence of alcohol, an airline spokesman said today.

An airline pilot, thought to be British, has been detained by police in Washington on suspicion of drinking alcohol.