When I served as Counselor to the Secretary of Transportation and later as Federal Aviation Administration Chief Counsel in the Bush administration, I was faced with several airline tragedies: a ...

NWS survey crews are surveying damage from Easter's storms. Here's how many tornadoes they've confirmed so far.

They determined that the dozens of damage reports were caused by very strong straight-line winds and embedded microbursts. According to the National Weather Service, the thunderstorm produced ...

“It looked like the construction workers were trying to put up a wall when we had extreme weather, maybe a microburst came through, and the wind pushed the wall over,” Dutcher explaine ...

The National Weather Service defines a microburst as a localized column of sinking air within a thunderstorm. Wind speeds in microbursts can reach up to 100 mph or higher, which is equivalent to ...

The National Weather Service in Wilmington on Monday confirmed that four tornadoes touched down Sunday evening in southwest Ohio, in addition to the severe thunderstorms that ripped through ...

According to CNN, warning signals sounded in cockpit of Delta Flight 2983 as it was departing Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport around 2:15 p.m. CT Friday. Delta has confirmed that 131 ...

A Minneapolis-bound Delta flight leaving Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. had a near miss with an Air Force jet Friday afternoon. The Associated Press reported that Delta Flight 2983 was ...

The fast-moving microburst ripped through north-central West Virginia, toppling trees, blocking roads and pulling down utility lines with winds gusting up to 70 mph. By 10 p.m. Saturday ...