A disaster at Manchester Airport that claimed 55 lives was a "pivotal moment in aviation safety", an expert has said. A passenger jet bound for Corfu caught fire on the runway on 22 August 1985, with ...

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 ...

A pro-Russian separatist stands guard over wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Beyond elevating the blood pressure of white-knuckled fliers, these ...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real incidents to look at why planes crash; in aerodynamic and technical terms and in the way the industry ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The crash of flight 255 was so overwhelming, rescue workers doubted there'd be any survivors, but they were wrong. Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan ...

The 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 became an international media sensation. Revisit the crash and investigation of a commuter plane that claimed the lives of a NASA astronaut ...