The recent accident in India involving an Air India Boeing 787, with over 200 casualties, has entered the list of aviation's biggest tragedies. Throughout history, air accidents have had a profound ...

Airport Disaster (1977) This disaster claimed 583 lives when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on a runway in thick fog. The flights involved were KLM Flight 4805 from Amsterdam and Pan Am Flight ...

Pan Am Flight 103 crashed over Lockerbie after a bomb exploded on the plane (Picture: Getty Images) An Air India plane carrying 242 people bound for London has crashed near Ahmedabad airport ...

The Lockerbie bombing took place on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky. The New York-bound Boeing 747, named Maid of the Seas, was passing five miles above the ...

Amost four decades after the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 it remains the deadliest terrorist attack on UK soil. Just after 7pm on 21 December 1988, a bomb exploded on the Boeing aircraft as it ...

50 YEARS LATER. THE PAN AM 747 JET FOR BONNIE DUNCAN. WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 1975 IS MORE THAN JUST A BLACK AND WHITE MEMORY. 31 OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ORPHANS FLOWN IN LAST NIGHT. THE ...

50 YEARS LATER. THE PAN AM 747 JET FOR BONNIE DUNCAN. WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 1975 IS MORE THAN JUST A BLACK AND WHITE MEMORY. 31 OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ORPHANS FLOWN IN LAST NIGHT. THE ...

48 years have now passed since the world’s most deadly aviation tragedy unfolded on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Almost half a century on, it is still difficult to fathom just how so many people ...

If not already evident, the Boeing 747-100 was the first generation 747 that Boeing delivered to its initial set of customers, which included Pan Am, Saudi Arabian Airlines, and Kalitta Air.

It's been nearly four decades after Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, but a local couple who discovered the body of one of the 270 victims still remain friends with his widow ...

The flight was conducted on a Boeing 747 dubbed “ Clipper Maid of the Seas, ” under the command of veteran Pan Am pilot Captain James B. MacQuarrie.

Policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner. (Image: ROY LETKEY / AFP) (Photo by ROY LETKEY/AFP via Getty Images.) ...