A series of aviation incidents has drawn national attention, with crashes involving a small business jet, a skydiving plane and two military jets.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Richard de Crespigny is the Qantas pilot who safely landed Qantas Flight 32 on November 4, 2010, after one of its engines exploded shortly after takeoff, tearing through vital ...

More than two dozen officials with the National Transportation and Safety Board are on site and have begun sifting through the mangled remnants of a UPS cargo plane that crashed after an engine detached during takeoff near Louisville Muhammad Ali ...

Many details of the Jeju Air disaster that killed 179 people remain unclear despite multiple investigations by officials and protests by the victims’ families. By Jin Yu Young and John Yoon Reporting from Seoul A year after the worst plane crash on South ...

Federal investigators released a preliminary report on the deadly crash of a UPS cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky, that killed 14 people earlier in November, revealing that hardware meant to hold one of the plane's engines in place showed signs of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off just before it crashed and exploded after takeoff in Kentucky, a federal official said Wednesday, offering the first investigative details about a disaster that ...

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 is run.

The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 British marvel that promised faster, higher, more comfortable air travel. Then in early 1954, two of them broke apart in mid-air over the Mediterranean within three months of ...

A plane crash is under investigation, according to troopers with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.