By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Federal aviation officials approved a new type of small jet despite problems with the plane's design and production, overruling safety concerns voiced by government engineers, inspectors and test pilots, according to federal and congressional investigators.

WASHINGTON _ The Department of Transportation's inspector general has called for a management shakeup at the FAA's air traffic control operations at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport after finding that controllers at the Texas facility covered up operational mistakes by wrongfully classifying them as pilot errors.

By Thomas Frank WASHINGTON -- When he was head of security at Northwest Airlines in the 1990s, Douglas Laird worried about aviation workers smuggling drugs into the USA by stashing them inside airplane doors, behind wall panels and underneath bathroom sinks.

By Jeff Bailey Months after thousands of passengers were stranded for hours on U.S. airport runways in June, airlines still have not agreed on how many hours confined passengers should have to wait before being able to demand to be released from a plane, the inspector general at the U.S.

By Bob Dart, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Apr.