A Southwest Airlines plane abruptly dropped 500 feet reportedly to avoid a mid-air collision with a British jet fighter. Flight 1496 plummeted from 14,100 feet to 13,625 feet only six minutes after departing from Hollywood Burbank Airport in California on Friday.

Rumors of a "kill switch" dented foreign faith in the aircraft. Its wartime capabilities, shown in Israel's June attacks on Iran, prove the jet is unrivaled.

Türkiye's fighter jet project, known as KAAN, has three prototypes; one will be used for land tests, and the other two will fly as of April 2026, the head of Turkish Aerospace Inc. (TAI) said on Friday.

Kyiv said the French fighter, one of six in its air force, was performing a flight mission but was not shot down by Russian fire.

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Wednesday to try to resolve differences over the FCAS Franco-German-Spanish fighter jet project by the end of August,

An aviation photographer unknowingly captured the moment a Spanish fighter jet collided with a seagull during in airshow. The incident occurred on June 15 at the San Javier Air Base in Murcia, Spain.

The stealth fighter, one of the world’s most advanced and costing around $115 million, was grounded at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport due to technical snags.

Germany and France sought to defuse tensions over a planned joint fighter jet program, asking their defense ministers to present a solution in August as one of the region’s most ambitious weapons systems remains mired in conflict.

Photographer Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero captured the jaw-dropping moment a seagull smashed through the windshield of an $85 million fighter jet at a Spanish airshow at the San Javier Air

The Sopwith Camel was challenging to fly but also successful in downing enemy planes, and it went on to gain pop-culture fame thanks to the beloved “Peanuts” beagle