Have you ever noticed an airliner sitting at the terminal with what looks like an oversized kickstand? Turns out these tail ...

No tail strikes Crucially, the system allows the plane to take off as early as possible and more steeply, but without ever incurring a tail strike — a dangerous situation in which the tail of ...

Lightning frequently strikes airplanes as they fly through the clouds thousands of feet above the Earth’s surface, but is there any reason for airplane passengers to be alarmed about that? The short ...

For airplanes, being struck by lightning is a matter of "when," not "if." The National Weather Service estimates that a commercial airplane will be struck by lightning one to two times per year on ...

Airplane lightning strikes are actually quite common. Nearly every plane in every fleet has been struck by lightning, on average American fleets experience a lightning strike once every six months.

A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 suffered a tail strike during take-off in January 2022 after the pilots rotated too soon to avoid colliding with a small oncoming aircraft.

The final report released Wednesday culminated a nearly yearlong investigation of the incident that happened on Jan. 22, 2022, when JetBlue Airways flight 1748 incurred a tail strike on its ...