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 largest ...

Midair collisions throughout aviation history have brought some of the worst tragedies in the sky. But they've also left ...

All 248 people on board the KLM plane died; 335 of the 396 people on the Pan Am plane died. 583 died in total. The disaster happened amid a crowded day at the airport. Many aircraft had been ...

Elon Musk and his band of DOGE techies have been asked to upgrade the nation's aviation system in the wake of the midair ...

This was the terrifying moment a KLM flight from Amsterday to Birmingham's BHX International Airport came close to disaster. Extreme 50mph crosswinds buffeted the aircraft from side to side as is ...

Show more Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it ...

"The two principal safeguards against collisions are air traffic controllers and pilots. This article will discuss the legal issues that arise when these lines of defense fail." ...

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has had a perfect safety record—no crashes, no souls lost—or 85 years, if measured from the founding of its predecessor company, British West Indian ...