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 ...

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people, while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down ...

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

The history of military aviation is filled with powerful and deadly aircraft that have played significant roles in warfare.

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 pilot in command was Captain Dawie Uys, 49, a veteran with more than 13 843 hours flying experience, 3 884 of those on the Boeing 747 aircraft type ... a fire had started on board causing the ...

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

A Lufthansa Boeing 747 was forced to make an emergency landing when its captain ... The co-pilot took control of the aircraft while two flight attendants rushed to provide first aid to the captain in ...

The jumbo jet, a Boeing 747-SR model, never made it to its destination. At around 6:56 p.m., the plane crashed into a ridge on Mount Osutakayama in Gunma Prefecture. The crash killed 520 ...

Critical data that could piece together the final movements of a Black Hawk helicopter before it crashed in Washington lie ...

In the wake of Flight 5342's collision with a helicopter, the worst aviation incident since 2001, and as authorities hunt for ...