The weather alert system and runway lights weren’t working at a foggy San Diego airport where a private jet was planning to land before it crashed.

One of the safety measures currently in place at Charlotte Douglas is called Runway Status Lights. They are on most of the ...

However, recent investigative reporting by local television station WSOC-TV has revealed that, unlike the other runways at ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport Manager Jeff McDougle holds up a circuit panel from the lights on the main runway that failed last week, during Tuesday’s Wood County Airport Authority meeting.

Lights designed to prevent runway incursions were out of service when a Japan Coast Guard plane collided with an arriving Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2.