In the early days of aeronautical travel, an Italian designer wanted to push the envelope of commercial air travel, but the concept was ahead of the technology.

The successful test run marks a noteworthy step forward for long-awaited electric aircraft and battery technology broadly, but don’t expect to book a fully battery-powered flight anytime soon. Manufactured by Los Angeles-based Heart Aerospace,

The plane was carrying 10 passengers and three crew members when it crashed in Connecticut. Officials confirmed that the racing legend, his wife and their baby escaped a private jet that crashed and caught fire in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

The civilian-contracted plane crashed at a remote radar site some 450 miles from Anchorage.

A plane crash and a gyrocopter crash both occurred at the Brenham Municipal Airport on Saturday. According to the City of Brenham, crews responded to 3001 Aviation

Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna aircraft that collided near a runway in central Pennsylvania.

A devoted mom of two was killed in front of her daughter by a small plane that landed on her car while making an emergency landing on a highway. Alex Garneau and her daughter were in one of four cars hit by the twin-engine Beech King Air 200 plane as it landed in Prince George,

"Cabin fire in the back of the airplane," the pilot says in air traffic control audio obtained by CBS News. "The flight attendants are trying to put it out now."