Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with brothers Jerry and David Zucker popularized the 1980s spoof genre with comedies such as “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” series, has died.

Brian Morris, creator of "Flight Deck: Fear Of Flying Flash Cards," struggled with Aerophobia, the fear of flying on airplanes. Morris, of Utah, told Fox News Digital via email he had participated ...

Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety.

The world is a little less funny today. Shorewood High School graduate Jim Abrahams, a co-creator of the zany "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies, has died at age 80. His death was confirmed in an ...

Jim Abrahams, part of the writing-directing-producing team behind such comedy touchstones as Airplane!, the Naked Gun films, and Police Squad!, died Tuesday at his Santa Monica home. He was 80.

MASON, Mich. (WILX) - Two people managed to walk away uninjured from a plane after a “hard landing” in Mason Monday afternoon. On Monday, Nov. 25., just after 3:40 p.m., a small aircraft ...

The pilot of a four-seat airplane hit a tree while attempting to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Fullerton Municipal Airport on Monday afternoon, Nov. 25. First responders ...

A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives if an airplane's GPS signals were to get jammed or disrupted. Scientists are testing an ...

“If you combine all that together, we could fill two airplanes a week to a European destination that then would disperse … out to other destinations,” Perryman said. “So somewhere in the ...