An engine does not have to quit to bring down an airplane; sometimes it only has to come loose. That distinction matters most during takeoff, when an airliner is accelerating through its most ...

Police investigating the Jeju Air passenger plane disaster, in which 179 people died in 2024, launched a search and seizure targeting public officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and ...

A student pilot and his flight instructor avoided the worst possible outcome after crashing into the icy Hudson River on ...

Putting young, inexperienced pilots into a 50-year-old Air Force plane seems like a risky idea. Even riskier? Getting rid of crew’s parachutes to save money. But that’s what the Air Force did last May ...

When you glance out your airplane window at 30,000 feet, that curved little portal seems like a simple design choice. But the reason it is round has nothing to do with style. It is the result of one ...

This is what happens when something scary goes bump in the flight. While air travel is still one of the safest modes of transport, some flight-eningly common issues can occur in the air. In fact, the ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

One year after a tragic plane crash into the Potomac River, just moments before what should have been a safe touchdown on a runway for American Airlines Flight 5342, local families are still haunted ...