With a wingspan of 500 feet, 12 engines, 56 wheels and a carrying capacity of 2,3 million pounds - this plane was five times ...

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 ...

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.

Swiftair Flight 5960 (Boeing 737-400SF)—Vilnius, Lithuania (25 November 2024) A Swiftair Boeing 737-400SF cargo aircraft crashed just short of the runway at Vilnius International Airport during its ...

A Boeing 747-200 falls out of the sky only 2 minutes after takeoff from London Stansted Airport runway 23, what has caused this? In todays video I will trace the story of Korean Airlines flight ...

The second-worst tragedy involving a Boeing 747 is the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka on August 12, 1985. 524 people on board the aircraft lost their lives when the plane ...

A 747-400 cargo plane belonging to UPS crashed on Friday evening in Dubai. The General Civil Aviation Authority said two crew members had been killed ...

- In July 2011, an Asiana Boeing 747-400 cargo aircraft crashed in the sea off South Korea's Jeju Island. This was later determined to have been caused by a fire in the cargo hold.

The deadly crash of an MK Airlines cargo plane in Halifax on Oct. 14, 2004, heightened concerns about crew fatigue and inadequate training, but 20 years later, key safety improvements have yet to ...

On Oct. 4, 1992, at least 43 people were killed when an El Al 747 cargo plane crashed into an apartment building on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

Similar to the reason the 747 was axed, Boeing announced its plans to stop manufacturing the C-17 because of the lack of demand in 2013. As of this writing, Boeing says 275 C-17s are still ...