The Why, How and Where of Flight Diversions
While diversions do happen frequently, the decision to land a plane perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles from its destination is not taken lightly. A look at why planes divert and how pilots, dispatchers and managers choose w...
On This Day in Aviation History: December 9th
Trans-Canada Flight 810 crashes in 1956, United begins flights to Vietnam in 2004 exactly two years to-the-day after filing for bankruptcy. Delta receives the 1,000th 737 in 1983, MiG designer Artem Mikoyan dies in 1970, the fi...
Video: Spectacular HD Footage from a Boeing 737 Cockpit
A month after finding perhaps the most epic Airbus A320 cockpit video of all time, we've come across its Boeing 737 equivalent.
No Survivors as Regional Aircraft Crashes in Northeastern Brazil
A regional jet flying for Brazilian airline Noar Linhas Aereas crashed in northeastern Brazil on Wednesday morning, the government said, killing all 16 people on board.
Photos: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Assembly Line
Here are some closeups from a rare cameras-allowed tour of Boeing's Everett, Wash. 787 factory, including the first 787 for United Airlines.