When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

About 11 hours after the nation’s worst airline disaster in more than two decades, an X user posted a dramatic image of rescuers climbing atop the wreckage in the Potomac River, emergency lights ...

At 9:02 a.m. 47 years ago Thursday, a terrifically hot late September Monday, Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 banking steeply over North Park on final approach to Lindbergh Field clipped a ...

In July of 1996, TWA Flight 800 leaves John F. Kennedy Airport. Minutes later, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet suddenly explodes killing everyone aboard. To find the answer, the NTSB must attempt the ...

When airplane tragedies occur, like the recent crash in Brazil, it is devastating and heartbreaking for the families and friends of the victims. High-profile airline disasters are also often ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Seventy years ago, Jacksonville experienced its first commercial airline disaster that claimed the lives of 17 people. News4JAX aviation analyst Ed Booth is not only an expert on ...

The death toll has risen to 12, including one child, in Tuesday’s horrific crash of a UPS cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky. Sixteen people remain unaccounted for as of this writing. On Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hold on to your seat! Each of the six episodes of this white-knuckled, thrilling series feature detailed re-enactments of a ...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real incidents to look at why planes crash; in aerodynamic and technical terms and in the way the industry ...

The 1977 collision of two jumbo jets at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands horrified the world. Watch as examiners sift through the evidence to untangle the chain of events that claimed the lives of ...