Aviation accidents

Twenty-five years before the Malaysia Airlines mystery, one of the most dramatic events in aviation unfolded in the skies over Iowa as heroic pilots battled to land a crippled DC-10.

The tragic loss of Avro Vulcan VX770 at Syerston was caused by a simple case of over-exuberance, flying the aircraft beyond its designation limitations.

BOAC Archives - This Day in Aviation

The passengers and pilots of two planes got quite the surprise as they neared the runway: both planes arrived at the San Francisco airport at the same time and were very close to e…

Read "Bush Pilot Way Flying and Training in Alaska to Become the Best Pilot You Can Be" by Bill Quirk available from Rakuten Kobo. Color-illustrated, Bush Pilot Way, focuses on flying small taildragger aircraft and landing them in remote and challengi...

(One of my favorites) - The Boeing B-29 “Eddie Allen” was far more than just another combat machine thrown into the effort to bring WW II to an end. Named after the famous Boeing test pilot Edmund T. “Eddie” Allen, the aircraft was paid for by donations from the employees of Boeing Wichita and given to the USAAF as a gift. The “Eddie Allen” served its country well, flying 24 combat missions before being so badly damaged that it was almost unable to return to its Tinian Island base. The…

These tragedies triggered major technological advances in flight safety that keep air travel routine today. These are the plane crashes that changed aviation.