A small plane with an apparently incapacitated pilot that crashed just after 9 am in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday has sunk, said Coast Guard officials. Crews flying over the site saw no signs that its pilot survived the crash, the report said.
The Cessna twin engine propeller plane went down Thursday about three hours after [...]

(AP) BATH, Maine - An enormous, expensive and technology-laden warship that some Navy leaders once tried to kill because of its cost is now viewed as an important part of the Obama administration’s Asia-Pacific strategy, with advanced capabilities that the Navy’s top officer says represent the Navy’s future.
The stealthy, guided-missile Zumwalt that’s taking shape at [...]

By Greg Miller
The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said.
Securing permission to use these “signature strikes” would allow the agency to hit targets based solely on intelligence [...]

Reuters - A JetBlue pilot whose midair meltdown prompted a cross-country flight to make an emergency landing in west Texas last month will plead he was insane at the time of the incident, his lawyer said in a federal court filing on Wednesday.
Attorney Dean Roper filed the notice in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, [...]

New Delhi (CNN) — India said Thursday that it had successfully carried out the maiden test flight of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can apparently travel more than 5,000 kilometers.
The Agni V rocket took off around 8:03 a.m. local time (10.33 p.m. Wednesday ET) and “met all the mission objectives,” said S.P. Das, director of [...]

CONFUSION reigned among the crew of a Jetstar flight forced into a last-minute aborted landing at Singapore Airport, air safety investigators have found.
Jetstar flight JQ57 was flying from Darwin to Singapore’s Changi Airport on May 27, 2010, when a series of distractions forced a go-around landing.
Among them was the sound of text messages being sent [...]

A sleepy pilot who mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming plane sent his Air Canada jet into a steep dive that bounced passengers off the ceiling, injuring 16, and nearly caused a collision with a real plane flying 1,000 feet lower.
Air Canada initially described the injuries to 14 passengers and two flight attendants as [...]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) – You almost want to rub your eyes when you first see it. It doesn’t seem real. It doesn’t belong there. But there it is, the space shuttle Discovery mounted on top of a specially modified Boeing 747 airplane.
At first light Tuesday, Discovery flew out from the Kennedy Space Center [...]

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By EVAN RAMSTAD WSJ
SEOUL—North Korea launched a multistage rocket Friday morning, again defying countries that want it to stop pursuing advanced weapons, but it reportedly blew up less than two minutes into flight and parts crashed in the Yellow Sea off South Korea.
The rocket took off around 7:39 a.m. local time from a new launch [...]