Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 materialized from the clouds, then plunged into the trees while descending toward Kirksville, Missouri. The twin-engine turboprop ignited moments before reaching the runway, the resulting wreckage a smoldering…

Independent Air Flight 1851, traveling from Italy to the Dominican Republic, was scheduled to refuel at an island in Portugal. Moments before reaching the airport, however, the Boeing 707 plunged into a mountain. The international investiga…

Barely aloft, Japan Airlines Flight 123 was struck by two explosions. The pilot fought desperately to maintain control of the damaged Boeing 747 as it spiraled downwards. It crashed into the mountainside, the event quickly becoming one of t…

With both engines failing, the turboprop plummeted into the landscape of Papua New Guinea, and soon afterward, investigators discovered a critical defect within the aircraft, one present in models flown across the globe.

A Kazakh flight crew successfully landed a malfunctioning aircraft, prompting an investigation into how the plane, recently undergoing maintenance, was cleared for flight despite a critical defect.

When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines flight 8633 shattered, the crew fought against gale-force winds and dwindling oxygen to bring the aircraft down safely.

The death of a British billionaire and his family in an Australian seaplane crash revealed a subtle flaw in the aircraft's upkeep, a deficiency that ultimately proved fatal.

The fate of the Bulgarian airliner rests on a delicate negotiation: persuading the violent hijackers that their terms have been fulfilled, and doing so before the aircraft exhausts its fuel supply.

The Amazon cargo plane plunged nose-first into a swamp just outside Houston. The subsequent investigation gradually revealed a pilot with a documented history of repeated errors.

EgyptAir flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo. Initial findings indicated the aircraft had sustained a fire, but Egyptian authorities subsequently attributed the crash to terrorism. The matter has been …