The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 flight from Miami to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency landing after its captain became ...

A PILOT fainted mid-flight forcing the packed 747 he was flying to turn around while stewards tried to revive the captain.

Sixty passengers and four crew from the plane are presumed dead from the crash, which also killed the three military members ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort ...

With two major crashes in December bringing total airline deaths to 318, 2024 was the deadliest year in commercial aviation since 2018.

64 (to accidents) It was the largest commercial aircraft in the skies for decades until the introduction of the Airbus A380. Boeing manufactured the 747 from 1968 to 2023. The last passenger B-747 ...

The Boeing 747, known as the Queen of the Skies ... considering that if it crashed, “more people would be killed at one time than died in airplane accidents over an entire year.” ...