The tragedy resulted in the deaths of 505 passengers and 15 crew members, while four passengers miraculously survived ...
The Tenerife Airport disaster became the deadliest aviation accident in human history after two fully loaded Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on a fog covered runway, killing 583 people in seconds.
What began as a routine holiday flight to the Canary Islands turned into the deadliest accident in aviation history. After a terrorist bomb forced multiple aircraft to divert to a smaller airport, a ...
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for neglecting key safety ...
You might see aviation accidents on TV, but there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes after coverage. There’s environmental cleanup, site recovery, regulatory reform, policy overhauls, ...
August 12, 1985, stands as one of the most devastating dates in aviation history, a day forever marked by tragedy and grief. It was on this day that the deadliest single-aircraft disaster unfolded, ...
There are a number of plane safety measures that passengers take for granted - wide aisles and emergency exits and floor-level lighting to name just a few. But these were only implemented after a ...
Multiple general aviation aircraft experienced fatal accidents in October 2015, resulting from a variety of causes including engine failure, loss of control, and in-flight breakups. Pilot decisions ...
The official definition of a "General Aviation accident" is narrow and inconsistent, often excluding incidents with substantial damage (e.g., many gear-up landings) and thus underreporting the true ...
Eleven people died in a tragic France skydiving crash. A skydiving plane crashed, and lives would be changed forever as a result. Everybody on board wouldn’t survive, and it left heartbreak in its ...
The Operation Airdrop disaster-response organization booth at SUN ’n FUN is recruiting pilots and corporate sponsors to help in their non-profit efforts to provide disaster relief with ...