Polish President Publicly Ridiculed Pilot Following 2008 Flight Diversion
The crew of the doomed Polish Air Force jet which crashed on Saturday—killing the President and other top Polish officials—may have felt pressured to land in dangerous conditions.
Transaero Applies to Launch Service from Moscow to New York and Miami
Moscow-based Transaero has applied to the US DOT for permission to launch service between Moscow-Domodeovo and New York-JFK International Airport, as well as Miami International Airport.
On This Day in Aviation History: February 11th
The first African American flight attendant is hired, JetBlue begins operations, United completes Pan Am purchase, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 crashes and much more.
2007 Floyd Bennett Field Fly-In
For a short time this past weekend, the sights and sounds of yesteryear returned to Floyd Bennett Field as fabric covered biplanes adorned the flight line, and the sound of radial engines filled the air at the annual Floyd Benn...
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 ...