The Logbook: Busy Day at the Paint Hangars
In today's daily digest, the first Boeing 747-8 rolls out of the paint hangar, V Austrailia 777-300 diverts to Hawaii as the passenger count increases in-flight, Alaska unveils lackluster scheme on a 737, Horizon unveils exciti...
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 ...
Giving Them Wings: The Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, GA
450 students doing five jumps each in two different parachutes -- in less than three days. It's impressive, and it happens at Ft. Benning almost every week.
Amerijet Receives First of Two Boeing 767 Freighters
Miami-based Amerijet has leased its first two wide body freighters to compliment its fleet of Boeing 727s.
Brunei Air Force Helicopter Crash Kills 12
A Royal Brunei Air Force helicopter crashed in western Brunei on Friday, killing 12 people in the country's worst ever aviation disaster.