Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was one of the last great long-range airliners developed by Boeing before the jet age. The ...

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 flight from Miami to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency landing after its captain became ...

Although its numbers have thinned, ten airlines still operate the enormous, graceful Airbus A380 for international luxury ...

We hate to break it to you, but the dirtiest spot on an airplane is the tray table where you eat your meals. According to a ...

The plane he was flying was a seven-year-old Boeing 747, named the Helderberg, of the type called a Combi ... It was subsequently established that a fire had started on board causing the aircraft to ...

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Chakraverty recalls himself experiencing similar horror when on the afternoon of March 12, 1993, he heard about the blast that gutted Sea Rock Hotel. It was part of the coordinated 12 blasts that took ...

ANALYSTS across the country’s aviation sector have been cautioned against speculating the likely cause of the recent incident ...

Days before Seattle-area residents planned to commemorate the 88 lives lost on Alaska Airlines Flight 261, another collision reignited air travel concerns.

The mid-air collision in Washington DC in January 2025 brings out several aspects of human factors that can result in an ...

The 356ft long plane would carry 12 times as much as a Boeing 747 (which is 127ft shorter) - and it would even be longer than the Wembley Stadium pitch. One man behind the project is rocket ...