Swissair Liquidates, Hijacker Crashes Xiamen Airlines Plane: October 2 in Aviation History
Swissair grounds its fleet, a Xiamen Airlines flight is hijacked in China, President Reagan re-starts the B-1B bomber program, and more...
American Airlines to Resume Flights to Haiti
American Airlines will resume flights to Port-au-Prince this week, marking the first commercial flights since January's devastating earthquake.
Cell Phones Might Not Really Endanger Airliners, NASA Books Flights on Virgin Galactic: Final Call
A new study shows cell phones may not be as dangerous to aircraft as some think, Atlantic Southeast Airlines to rebrand as ExpressJet, Heathrow's new pod system takes off, and more...
RwandAir Takes Delivery of its First Boeing 737-800
RwandAir, the national airline of the country of Rwanda, on Thursday took delivery of its first Boeing 737-800.The delivery sets two milestones both for the central African carrier and the continent as a whole. It is the first ...
WE GAAN: The Horror and Absurdity of History’s Worst Plane Crash
Like most other aviation calamities, the 583 people killed in 1977 when a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife resulted not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a ...