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Flight Instructor and Student Presumed Dead After Plane Crash off Florida Coast
Two people have been presumed dead after a small single-engine aircraft crashed into the waters off the coast of Florida Wednesday night.
On This Day in Aviation History: December 30th
TAROM Flight 3107 goes off the runway at Otopeni, Romania in 2007, Basque separatists bomb a parking garage at Madrid Airport in Spain in 2006 and the Wright Brother finally cash-in on their flying in 1905 in a failed deal with...
Comair Jet Crashes Off of Wrong Runway: August 27th in Aviation History
Today in 1910, air-to-ground radio transmission is born; 1913, the first loop-the-loop maneuver is performed; in 1939, the jet age begins with the first flight of the Heinkel 178; 2006, Comair 5191 crashes in Lexington, Kentucky.
OPINION: What Makes a Great-Looking Jetliner?
“Aesthetically it’s no 747, but it’s a handsome plane,” I wrote of the 787 previously in a column. “Confident in a way not unlike its older and smaller sibling, the 757.”
TACA Airlines Flight Skids Sideways While Landing in Costa Rica
Several people were treated for shock Thursday after a plane skidded as it attempted to land at Costa Rica's main international airport.