Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flight lesson, which should have been routine and uneventful, ended in tragedy. Viktoria ...

A 22-year-old aspiring airline pilot with an “intense love and passion for flying” was killed in a small plane crash in Colorado a month after landing a gig as a commercial pilot. Niles Tilenius, 22, ...

A flight instructor from Santa Monica Flyers, a flight school located at the airport, and a student were killed while trying to land following an introductory flight lesson at about 4:25 p.m. on ...

A student pilot and his flight instructor avoided the worst possible outcome after crashing into the icy Hudson River on ...

I received a call from a recruiter for a regional airline who had stumbled across my CFI résumé someplace. As I have well over 1,500 hours, he wanted to know if I would like to fly for it. "No, thank ...

Flight instructors must actively cultivate empathy for their learners, remembering what it's like to be a novice and challenging their own assumptions to effectively guide students. Becoming a CFI is ...

HARRISON, N.Y. -- The man killed in a small plane crash on I-684 near New York's Westchester County Airport has been identified as Yankele Friedman, a 32-year-old flight instructor who was with a ...

The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence honored its top academic instructors, instructor pilots and noncommissioned officer flight instructors in a ceremony at Fort Novosel, Ala., Dec. 11, 2023.