The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 ...

Although the history of air travel is mainly very safe nowadays, the history of aviation is replete with aircraft that, one way or another, came to be known as dangerous. These are not cases of abuse, ...

Aircraft windows used to be much larger than they are today.

Commercial aircraft accidents are very rare. That’s a good thing. It is the most powerful evidence that aviation is the ...

While the total number of deadly airliner accidents remained statistically low last year, two high-profile commercial losses in India and the USA contributed to a major spike in fatalities, which ...