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TWA was a major player at Las Vegas from its very beginning, first operating through Boulder City, and one of the first carriers to fly jets into McCarran. Boeing 707-331B N780TW leaves the gate on October 23, 1972.

Small Plane Crash in Alaska Kills Five

All five passengers a board a small plane died after the aircraft crashed on railroad tracks in the southern region of the state of Alaska, local authorities said Friday.

Death Toll in Congo Plane Crash Lowered to 75

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have lowered the death toll from last week's Hewa Bora Airways plane crash from 127 to 75, state-run media reported on Tuesday. There was no explanation for the dramatically diffe...

ANA and Japan Airlines To Ground All Boeing 787 Dreamliners After Latest Glitch [UPDATED]

All Nippon Airways will ground its entire fleet of 787 Dreamliners after one of their planes made an emergency landing in Japan Wednesday.

On This Day in Aviation History: December 23rd

The deaths of two aviation greats; Andrei Tupolev in 1972 and Anthony Fokker in 1939. The B-1 Lancer makes its first flight in 1974, the first dogfight with a UAV in 2002 and the crashes of Azerbaijan Flight 217 in 2005 and Ali...