A passenger jet narrowly averted “disaster” after it scraped along a runway, skidded across grass and hit light poles during a terrifying take-off. The 250-ton Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787, which was ...

Airplane disaster drill at Middletown Regional Airport, Saturday, April 18, 2009 Firefighters carry Ben Mumfrey(cq), one of the victims in a disaster training excercise, away from two wrecked aircraft ...

She’s going on a wing and a prayer. Amid the recent spate of airplane disasters, one God-fearing JetBlue passenger has turned to the Almighty to keep her safe in the sky by anointing an aircraft with ...

Pilots with California Disaster Airlift Response Teams are preparing for a simulated emergency response exercise — practice for critical flights to people and supplies around disasters such as ...

The Manchester Airport disaster in 1985 is considered a watershed moment for aviation safety, prompting a number of key ...

It has only been a few hours since Air India flight AI171 crashed in Ahmedabad, killing more than 260 people, yet public speculation about the causes of the disaster is already rife. Parts of the ...

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 ...