Two of Delta’s most experienced pilots are at the controls of the L-1011 Tristar, billed as one of the safest planes in the sky. The crew sees rain and lightning ahead, but... Read more »
March 27, 1977. At 2pm in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands where a terrible tragedy was about to... Read more »
When Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 departed from Addis Ababa on November 23, 1996, it was carrying 163 passengers and 12 crew members. Among them were an American diplomat, a legendary news cameraman,... Read more »
Since commercial aviation began, the romance of air travel has been marred by the tragedy of crashes. Today the sky above is safer than ever before–but the ground below has become more... Read more »
June 24, 1982 – On a clear summer night, during a seemingly calm trip to Australia, the impossible happens to British Airways Flight 009. Smoke starts filling the cabin. The engines catch... Read more »