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 ...

The recent crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad has prompted widespread discussion about potential causes . As an expert with a ...

As a correspondent for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair and the New York Times, he wrote vivid accounts of aviation disasters, shipwrecks and the Iraq War.