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President Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy ...

The president says an affiliate of the group trained and equipped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He promises to hold U.S. security officials accountable for breakdowns in terrorism screening.

President Obama said a "mix of human and systemic human failure" allowed a terror suspect to board an airliner in the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt.

The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says there was no fight in the cockpit and no one had fallen asleep.

The FAA has launched an investigation into why two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles ...