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 ...

August 19, 1980 - Shortly after takeoff, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Lockheed L-1011 initiates a return to Riyadh International ... box data recovered from the flight suggests someone in the cockpit ...

The upper deck houses the communications center and cockpit, while the 4,000 square feet of floor ... Boeing went up against versions of the DC-10, Lockheed’s C5, and the L-1011 for the contract.

When launched, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the most technologically-advanced widebody commercial airliner ever. This ...

(CNN) - Both black boxes have been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The flight recorders are being ...

If you want to experience what it's like to tear down the track in your favorite car, why not get a sim racing cockpit? While you can get by on a basic wheel and pedal setup, it fails to provide ...

A Southwest Airlines pilot was removed from the cockpit ahead of a Wednesday flight from Georgia to Chicago and was booked on a charge of driving under the influence, a source familiar with the ...

A Cathay Pacific flight departing Boston was forced to turn around shortly after takeoff following reports of smoke in the cabin and cockpit. Footage posted online purportedly shows smoke ...

The entire flight was less than one minute. In an update, the NTSB said investigators found the cockpit voice recorder at the "site of initial impact, at a depth of 8 feet." Officials said they ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people brought renewed focus on the federal agency charged ...