A teenager was arrested after allegedly making a bomb threat while onboard a Spirit Airlines flight. The 16-year-old now faces criminal mischief and false bomb threat charges.

Airports, primarily on the East Coast, have seen a substantial spike in flight cancellations since the summer travel rush began this year compared to the same period in 2024.

An aircraft in distress is circling Lancaster Airport, preparing to make a landing, according to Manheim Township police.

The small engine plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, was reporting engine trouble as it approached the runway, according to the Sylacauga airport.

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A small plane made an emergency landing late Thursday morning on a golf course in the Upstate. Crews with the Sandy Grove Fire Department said the plane was returning to North Carolina from Atlanta when the plane lost oil pressure.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.

Just-released 911 calls captured the desperate moments after a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood Sunday evening, as neighbors rushed into action. They came armed with sledgehammers, axes and hoses to save a family of four trapped inside the burning aircraft.