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US Airways said Monday it will add 500 flight attendants and pilots next year mostly to cover planned retirements and attrition.

A pilot who refused to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative pat down going through airport security said the procedures violate his rights.

Honduras' military says one of its helicopter has crashed during an exhibition for children and the pilot has died.

Some airline pilots would be required to get nine hours of rest between one work day and the next, an hour more than now, under proposed changes in federal rules.

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A flight attendant with a pilot's license ditched her normal duties and stepped in for a sick copilot of an American Airlines flight before the plane landed in Chicago, Illinois, airline officials said.

Airlines should create and enforce policies to ensure that pilots focus on flying their planes safely instead of being distracted by laptop computers and other devices, the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.

The Federal Aviation Administration is changing a generations-old policy banning pilots from taking antidepressants, saying the new policy will improve safety by bringing to the surface pilots who either ignore signs of depression or lie about their use of medication for fear of losing their licenses to fly.

A United Airlines pilot has been charged after being arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk shortly before he was about to fly a transatlantic airliner, police said on Wednesday.

Their frolic during a Northwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Minneapolis endangered the passengers and crew, the agency says.

The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses Tuesday of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot a Minneapolis airport by 150 miles, saying that they "were on a frolic" that endangered the lives of others.

The prospect alone could renew focus on pilot fatigue and research that suggests controlled catnaps might actually make flying safer.