The Boeing 737-7GL, with 80 passengers onboard, saw its left engine blow shortly after taking off.

A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...

A passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from Aden Adde Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. Airport officials confirmed that 55 passengers were on board the Starsky aircraft, none of whom were ...

A catastrophic crash involving an Air India Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787-8 just seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad is expected to center investigators’ attention on the aircraft’s configuration during the ...

Love bagging the window seat on planes? It's exciting to watch the world below fade away as the aircraft takes off with the window blinds open. However, those blinds, or shades, do more than allow you ...