Syrian Airliner in Midair Collision With Military Helicopter Over Damascus
A Syrian military helicopter crashed near Damascus on Thursday after it clipped the tail of a large passenger plane, which landed safely.
Body Recovered from Submerged Air France Flight 447 Wreckage
Search teams were able to recover the body of one of the 228 victims that died during Air France flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 during a scheduled flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, French authorities...
FAA Downgrades Safety Ratings of Curacao and Saint Maarten, Current Flights Not Affected
The US Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday announced that it had downgraded the safety ratings of the Caribbean island nations of Curaçao and Saint Maarten from Category 1 to Category 2.
Today in Aviation History: April 8th
British Airways and Iberia formally combine their businesses, an engine explodes and falls off of a BOAC Boeing 707 near Heathrow, a South African de Havilland Comet crashes in the Mediterranean, and more...
Russian Rocket Carrying Navigation Satellites Gets Lost, Arrives At Ground
Early Tuesday, a Russian Proton-M rocket with a payload of three satellites malfunctioned almost immediately after launch, crashing down back into the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three satellites were d...