On This Day in Aviation History: February 19th
A China Airlines flight survives a 30,000ft dive in 1985, though an Iberia flight suffers an all-fatal crash the same day. The Boeing 757 makes its maiden flight, Lufthansa lines up to be the first 737 customer, and more...
WE GAAN: The Horror and Absurdity of History’s Worst Plane Crash
Like most other aviation calamities, the 583 people killed in 1977 when a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife resulted not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a ...
No Survivors as Airliner Carrying 127 People Crashes Near Islamabad Airport [UPDATED]
A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 with 127 people on board has crashed while attempting to land at Islamabad International Airport. There was no immediate word on the condition of the passengers.
FAA Hits Brakes on 787 Certification Until Cause of Fire Investigated
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday said it has no plans to resume certification testing of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft until it fully understands what caused an incident on Tuesday.
On This Day in Aviation History: April 12th
A day of major space milestones: Russia Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the US launches the first Space Shuttle 20 years later. Also, a British Airways Concorde loses part of its rudder, the first passenger flig...