(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 ...

The bustling Thai aviation hub closed its runway on Wednesday, 11 March, after an Air India Express Boeing 737 MAX 8 from ...

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan brings out the kid in me who used to fake crash toy cars together during playtime.

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

Four U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers arrived at RAF Fairford as the U.S. looks to "surge dramatically" the operations over Iran. After the UK allowed the U.S. to use RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia ...

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