New Korean Air Airbus A380 Makes First Flight to America
Korean Air's first transpacific Airbus A380 flight arrived in New York today, also marking the first scheduled use by any carrier of the superjumbo between east Asia and the east coast of North America.
On This Day in Aviation History: February 14th
The crashes of Belvia Flight 1834 and Indian Airlines Flight 605, China’s Long March 3 rocket kills villagers in a launch accident, India receives its first Soviet-built fighters, the first GPS satellite launched and more.
United Captain Accidentally Deploys Emergency Slide
The captain of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 accidentally deployed one of the plane's emergency escape slides in Seattle.
Northern Canada Float Plane Crash Kills 5
Five people were killed when a DHC-2 Beaver float plane used by a hunting lodge to transport guests crashed into a lake in northern Saskatchewan on Thursday.
When The Unthinkable Happens: A Memoir of Being a Witness to a Crash
Last August, NYCAviation's Standards Editor was attending the media day for an air show when an aircraft crashed while practicing it's routine. This is his memoir of the events of thst day and what followed.