Miscellany | Back in 1996, after the initially very mysterious explosion and crash of Flight 800 from JFK to Rome, there were numerous eyewitness accounts of a streak in the
There's been a pattern of irregularities linked to the tail fin, but Airbus says it's too soon to know.
Information on the list of airlines banned from operating within the European Union.
Airbus must take extra precaution and fix the A330’s faulty instruments—which could have caused Flight 447’s crash—in order to prevent another catastrophe.
LE BOURGET, France — Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident. Likening the investigation to a puzzle with missing pieces, lead investigator Alain Bouillard said that one month after the crash, "we are very far from establishing the causes of the accident."
Airlines will begin requiring some people buying tickets for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping suspected terrorists off planes." /><meta name="subsection" content="World" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to rank the best and worst safety records. Plus, which seats and parts of the flight are the most perilous.