Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
This article is a list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft and is grouped by the years in which the accidents and incidents occurred.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Fifty years ago, a group of 106 influential cultural and civic leaders from Atlanta traveled to Europe to visit famous museums and demonstrate the ascendant southern city's commitment to culture.
The Atlanta area's population in 1962 had recently hit a million people, but political and business leaders worried the growth wouldn't continue if the city didn't improve its museums and venues for theater and music. The city's cultural development would be altered forever by the trip, but in ways that had to do more with its tragic end.The group was on its way home June 3 when its chartered Air France plane crashed on takeoff at Orly Field in Paris, killing all but two flight attendants. It was the worst single plane crash at the time."The community was just in shock," said Joe Bankoff, outgoing president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. "I mean, to lose over 100 people in a moment was just unbelievable. But to lose such a cross section of Atlanta was particularly important."On...A California pilot who survived a weekend plane crash with his wife and daughter says he intentionally "belly-flopped" his small plane against a snowy Idaho mountain...
A California pilot who survived a weekend plane crash with his wife and daughter said he intentionally "belly-flopped" his small plane against a snowy Idaho mountain...
In a story on May 23, The Associated Press called a Russian military plane that crashed while landing in the Czech Republic a jet. The An-30 aircraft had turboprop e...
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The crash of a Russian-made passenger jet into the flanks of an Indonesian volcano has put a spotlight on the notoriously informal atmosphere aboard new aircraft dur...
Clearer weather finally allowed Indonesian helicopters to land Saturday and retrieve some remains of the 45 people aboard a Russian-made plane that crashed into a vo...
An Oklahoma Marine made the ultimate sacrifice when he pulled a friend out of a fiery plane wreck, saving her life but suffering fatal burns over 90 percent of his b...
Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine.Her words didn't make any sense to the Texas...
A small airplane that crashed in southeast Kansas was carrying five people with connections to Oral Roberts University to a Christian youth rally in Iowa, a friend o...
Officials say search teams on the face of an Indonesian volcano are still looking for the black box recorder that could explain why a Russian-made jetliner crashed i...
The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog says two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless professional misco...
Authorities on Wednesday were working to recover the bodies of four people who died when their single-engine plane crashed near Zion National Park, the second deadly...
Authorities in southern Utah have identified four Las Vegas men who were killed in a plane crash this week near Zion National Park.Kane County Emergency Manager Alan...
French investigators say the final report into the causes of the crash of Air France flight 447 will soon be published, three years after the jet went down in the mi...
France's new Socialist government said Wednesday that it would oppose a €400,000 ($500,920) payout for Air France-KLM's former CEO, part of its push to rein in top-l...
An official says the four people killed in a plane crash at a municipal airport in southern Utah were from the St. George area.St. George city official Marc Mortense...
Authorities have released the names of four young men killed in a small plane crash at a southern Utah airport.St. George city official Marc Mortensen says the victi...
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