Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort ...

While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could it have been more? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers ...

the 747 was built with safety as a top priority, considering that if it crashed, “more people would be killed at one time than died in airplane accidents over an entire year.” To manufacture ...

On December 29, 2024, a Boeing 737 crashed during an emergency landing at Muan airport, South Korea, resulting in 179 fatalities out of 181 occupants, making it the worst aviation disaster on South ...