It was supposed to be a routine landing - until a tiny lightbulb changed everything. Flight 401 vanished into the Everglades, ...

When Airplanes Make Emergency Landings on Water How skill and rigorous training helped pilots endure when ditching was the only option.

The crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 on June 24, 1975, exposed the deadly danger of microbursts and led to the creation of the Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System, revolutionizing aviation ...

In 1972, Roxie Laybourne was a 61-year-old ornithologist working in Washington, D.C., when she was asked to testify at a Maine murder trial. Photograph from Smithsonian Institution Archives; video ...

Relatives of the victims of the 1974 Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crash are working to memorialize the tragedy in Charlotte, marking the worst plane crash in the city’s history.

In O'Rourke v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., 730 F.2d 842 (2d Cir. 1984), Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was attempting to land at the John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons After Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades in 1972, salvaged parts were reportedly reused in other aircraft.

Aside from birds, hundreds of other types of animals are struck annually, though these incidents rarely cause human injury or death.

The five-part series weaved a narrative with first-person accounts of survivors of the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 and family members of passengers and crew who died.

The most devastating bird strike in U.S. history occurred in 1960, before the FAA began maintaining its database: On Oct. 4, 1960, Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 crashed into the Boston Harbor ...