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Three pilots, all of them with extensive flying experience, were in the cockpit of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday, says National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman.

Boeing's former chief financial officer pleads guilty in the growing scandal over the firm's defense contracts with the federal government. A top Air Force officer has also pled guilty in the investigation into favoritism in military acquisitions. NPR's David Schaper reports.

A flight school instructor wonders whether paying an Obamacare fine makes more financial sense than insuring workers.

NTSB to Investigate Point Mugu Jet Crash (Video)

The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announces she is halting funding for the 2,000-mile virtual fence just days before the release of a Government Accountability Office report that is expected to slam the project.

The Department of Homeland Security's plan to build a virtual fence across the U.S.-Mexico Border has come to a crashing halt just days before the release of a report expected to slam the system.

An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.

Control towers at many small and medium-sized airports around the country are set to shut down next month because of the across-the-board federal budget cuts. The towers have been operated under contract to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Phil Condit steps down as chairman and chief executive of Boeing, saying the move would "put the distractions and controversies of the past year behind us." The aviation giant has been struggling financially and is under investigation for unethical conduct in its military contracting procedures. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Airline Business editor David Field.