Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Scotland, New York Airways begins helicopter flights from Manhattan’s Pan Am Building and more…
Marital tip: When you falsely accuse your husband of being a terrorist, he probably isn’t coming home to reconcile.
Three men who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines jet in northwestern China in June were sentenced to death on Tuesday.
Rezwan Ferdaus, the man who plotted to fly bomb-laden radio-controlled planes into landmarks, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
A Boeing 727 is shot down in the Congo, a United Airlines flight becomes the first victim of a bombing, and more…
A judge ruled that a lawsuit against American Airlines and United Airlines over the destruction of the World Trade Center may proceed.
Senator Ted Stevens dies in a plane crash, US Airways files for bankruptcy, a new world speed record and more…
On this day in 1964, the Vietnam War’s first U.S. air operations take place. Terrorists attack Athens Airport in 1973. In 1981, Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers.
Spanish authorities have arrested three Al Qaeda operatives who had obtained explosives and had been training to fly ultralight airplanes.
1916: A timber merchant named William E. Boeing and a US Navy engineer named George Conrad Westervelt form a new aircraft company called the Pacific Aero Products Company. A year later it would be renamed Boeing Airplane Company. 1923: Dobrolyot, a Soviet state airline and predecessor of today’s Aeroflot, launches its first scheduled domestic service, [...]
