Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries—including cell phones, laptops, vape pens and portable chargers—cause smoke or fire ...

Delta Flight 1334 diverted after a passenger's backpack battery ignited mid-flight. No injuries reported; crew swiftly ...

Delta Flight 127, which departed Madrid, Spain diverted to the volcanic island of Terceira in the Azores. Passengers were stranded 29 hours there.

A Delta flight made an emergency landing due to a battery fire; the crew extinguished the flames, and passengers landed ...

Lee Moak is a former Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 pilot and a past president of the Air Line Pilots Association. Over the past three months, an unusual number of commercial aviation incidents have ...

Passengers today shouldn’t be worried about flight safety, experts say. That’s despite two recent aircraft accidents involving regional jets: the fatal January American Airlines collision with ...

While it's had some safety incidents and even accidents over the years, thankfully, no one has died. ... Delta Air Lines operates a vast network with a massive fleet of more than 1,200 aircraft, ...

The incidents — highlighted in preliminary F.A.A. safety reports but not publicly disclosed — were among a flurry of at least 46 close calls involving commercial airlines last month alone.

Newsweek put together timelines for three major U.S. airlines—American, Delta and United—to compare the number of incidents involving the companies' planes in the past 12 months.