A Merpati Airlines passenger plane carrying at least 27 people crashed off Indonesia's West Papua province on Saturday, officials said, adding that a number of bodies have been recovered.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 overruns at Burbank, launches of Landsat 3 and Explorer 2, crashes of BOAC 911, Palair Macedonian 301, Lake Central, first flight of the Spitfire and lots more.
An impressive sight: Here we see 15 B-52s conducting Minimum Interval Take-Offs (MITO) from Minot AFB, North Dakota, during the U.S. Strategic Command nuclear exercise GLOBAL THUNDER in June 2009.
Numerous airlines on Tuesday morning were forced to cancel hundreds of flights to and from Scotland and several other regions as the latest volcanic ash crisis continued to intensify.