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 ...
4 Dead After Plane Crash at Wichita MidContinent Airport
A small plane crashed into a building at Wichita MidContinent Airport (ICT) just before 10 a.m. central time on Thursday, killing four people and injuring five others. Photos circulated within minutes on social media, showing a...
New Underwear Bomb Plot Thwarted by CIA, But More Bombs and Terrorists Unaccounted For
The CIA has broken up a new Al Qaeda plot to blow up an airliner using explosive underwear, the Associated Press reported Monday afternoon. An upgraded underwear bomb with an improved detonation system was seized by agents in Y...
Audio: Severe Turbulence Injures Four Aboard US Airways Flight to Denver
Two passengers and two flight attendants were injured when a US Airways flight hit severe turbulence while approaching into Denver Saturday night.
British Airways and Qatar Airways Announce Resumption of Flights to Tripoli
British Airways plans to continue flights to the Libyan capital of Tripoli this spring, while Qatar Airways will resume flights even sooner, both airlines announced Monday. Flights were suspended in February 2011 as a result of...