A private plane skidded off a runway and ended up in Coos Bay in North Bend, Oregon, Monday, April 7. All five people onboard ...

A Southwest plane inadvertently started to take off from a taxiway instead of a runway on Thursday. Flight tracking data shows the jet was on a parallel taxiway and reached about 70 knots.

Shepard said he spoke to people who works at the Boca Raton Airport who saw the plane take off. “All of them describe to me a problem on this airplane as soon as it took off,” Shepard explained.

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were among six women who traveled aboard Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission, which lifted off Monday.