Virginia-based aviation company Electra says it managed to get some 2,200 orders for its short-, low-speed take off aircraft, the EL9.

The Southwest jet appears to have mistakenly accelerated on a taxiway that runs parallel to Runway 17R, reaching about 70 knots before slowing.

Brooklyn Park fire officials said they don't believe there are any survivors of the plane, and it is unclear at this time how many people were on board.

“They further stated that runway 13R/31L appeared to have a very ... NTSB Following the incident, the captain of the Flexjet aircraft parked the plane and “subsequently contacted the operator ...

THE Delta Air Lines flight that crash-landed belly-up on the tarmac in Toronto was descending at a high rate of speed before suffering a broken landing gear, according to a preliminary report. The

The plane was towed back to parking, and the incident was quickly resolved without impact on operations at the airport. There is no information yet on why the plane left the runway.

The report states the plane began veering left, leaving the runway before colliding with a parked Gulfstream G200 at around 2:38 p.m. It added that the Learjet was not equipped with reverse thrusters and its drag chute was not deployed. The airport's ...

This weekend was no different after a Beechcraft Bonanza carved a path of destruction through a row of parked ... plane came down in Manheim near a retirement village roughly a mile from the runway.

When the plane started to accelerate on the parallel taxiway instead of the runway, an air traffic controller canceled the takeoff clearance. No injuries were reported. "Southwest is engaged with the NTSB and FAA to understand the circumstances of the event," a spokesperson for the airline said. The flight was bound for Albany, New York.

Officials say a Southwest Airlines flight almost took off from a taxiway — rather than a runway — at a central Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller stopped the plane.