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The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
An-225 image gallery: Second Antonov An-225 (line no. 01-02) under construction, September 2004: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Video; on YouTube The worlds biggest planes: Antonov An-225 in comparison with Airbus A380-800, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400
The fire spread into the cabin, causing mass panic among the passengers. The plane then crashed, killing all 156 people on board. Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2806 is hijacked by terrorists and taken to Medina airport. After some negotiations, Saudi special forces storm the plane. One flight attendant, a passenger and one of the hijackers were ...
An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night ...
The international figure skating community was in shock Thursday as more details emerged about the tragic plane crash near Washington, D.C. that authorities fear has no survivors.. U.S. Figure ...
The wife of a passenger killed in the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The last crash of a U.S. airliner was the Colgan Air accident in February 2009, which killed 49 people on the plane and one on the ground during a snowstorm near Buffalo, New York.