At around 11:25 p.m. on March 5, 1999, an Air France Boeing 747 freighter aircraft (AF-6745), carrying five crew members and 66 tonnes of assorted cargo, attempted to land at Chennai Airport in ...

Plane Crashes In India Air India Flight 855 (1978) On New Year's Day, just moments after taking off from Mumbai for a flight to Dubai, the majestic Boeing 747 named Emperor Ashoka banked into the ...

August 12, 1985 – The largest number of deaths in a single commercial airplane crash occurs when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashes into Mt. Ogura in Japan, killing 520 passengers and crew ...

Air India plane, flight AI171, bound for London with 242 people onboard, crashed as it took off from Ahmedabad airport. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

In 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in France due to a cargo door failure, resulting in the deaths of 346 people. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was the target of a terrorist attack.

First introduced in 2013, the 777X will enter the market this decade in three different models, the company announced at the Paris Air Show.

Extending close to the length of a football field, U.K.-based Hybrid Air Vehicles ’ (HAV) Airlander 10—dubbed “The Flying Bum ...

A National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 freighter on behalf of US Mobility Command, registration N949CA performing cargo flight N8-102 from Bagram (Afghanistan) to Dubai Al Maktoum (United Arab Emirates) ...

For these reasons lithium metal cells are prohibited to be carried as bulk cargo shipments on passenger carrying aircraft. The FAA added, that the cargo of the UPS Boeing 747 crashed in Dubai on ...

The Air India plane crash this week was one of India’s worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground.