It was then that a senior radio officer, Frederick Mockford of the Croydon Airport in London, came up with the idea for “mayday" because it sounded like the French word "m'aider", which means ...

The paperback edition of Croydonopolis has just been released, and Inside Croydon subscribers can purchase it with a special discount code “A Journey to the Greatest City That Never Was” proclaims the ...

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The mistake, according to investigators, was that the co-pilot shifted a lever to his left instead of his right, reducing the plane's thrust just before take off and starting a fire in the landing ...

Newly released video shows the moment Chicago police removed a passenger from a flight at O'Hare International Airport last month ... confronting him on the plane, and then taking him with a ...

Sadly, Juan de la Cierva was killed in an air crash at Croydon airport on December 9, 1936, and one of the pioneering figures of helicopters was lost to the worst air crash in the UK at that time.

it was flying from Clearwater Air Park and headed to Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport. The plane crashed in a small wooded area nearby, "for unknown reasons." The FAA says the time of the crash ...

The Fargo Air Museum display remembers the life of Wendell Keller, who was shot down during a night mission over the jungles of Laos. Keller's son, Michael, helped make the exhibit happen. Michael ...

The Federal Aviation Administration requires the airport to do this simulation once a year. Firefighters worked on putting a fire out on the ground and the plane. Firefighters also went inside the ...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Officials with Ocala Fire Rescue (OFR) have provided new details regarding a small plane crash that occurred just outside Ocala International Airport on Wednesday night. The ...

She started watching the airport workers load the plane with luggage and bags, but one halted when a dog crate came through. Delighted at what she saw next, she immediately took out her phone to ...