(CNN) — 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 ...

Japan Airlines Flight 123 began as a short domestic journey from Tokyo to Osaka but ended in tragedy. Just minutes after takeoff, a critical mechanical failure caused the aircraft to lose control. For ...

In November 1996, two passenger jets converged in the same narrow air corridor over Delhi as one climbed out and the other descended toward landing. The Saudi Boeing 747 was holding its assigned ...

The Ermenonville air disaster, 52 years ago today, became the deadliest crash in aviation history when 346 people on board died when a plane came down ...

A total of 346 people were killed in the Ermenonville air disaster 52 years ago as it became the deadliest crash in aviation history ...

As one of the world’s most frequent flyers, CNN’s Richard Quest has an encyclopaedic knowledge of airlplanes, having flown in most of them. From the BAC 1-11 to the A380, here are his favorites.

A group of Pan Am flight crews volunteered for Mission 1965/31, the final passenger flight out of South Vietnam. An ...

He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

From biplanes in Brazil to the enduring legacy of the Spitfire, nothing compares with getting up close to aviation’s most ...

A glass cockpit removed the need for a flight engineer and made it easier for pilots to fly the MD-11.

Modern machines of war are intimidating, but Lockheed drew up plans for a flying aircraft carrier in the 1960s that was would have had enemies duly alarmed.

Iran's IRGC launched "Operation Great Prophet 19," striking the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower with 800+ drones and missiles, halting Strait of Hormuz oil traffic for four days amid Khamenei's funeral ...