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 ...

All but one of the 242 passengers and crew on board Air India Flight AI171 died after the Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner crashed ...

Although the flight did not end as well as SpaceX officials hoped, the company made some tangible progress Tuesday. Most ...

Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling ... an airborne command center, with encrypted ...

Jets like the Boeing 747 can hold monstrous amounts of fuel ... and lower surfaces of the wing itself form a part of the fuel tank." Center tanks are, instead, found in the region of the fuselage ...

The NTSB rules the explosion was caused by faulty wiring that ignited a center fuel tank. November 12, 1996 – A midair collision between a Saudi Arabian Airlines 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines II ...

Boeing began development on the 747 jumbo jet in ... and its dual six-gallon tanks give it a flight endurance of 4 hours. It consumes about 13 liters (3.4 gallons) of fuel per hour, cruising ...

TWA 800 was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into ... to the explosion of flammable fuel vapors in the plane's center fuel tank, likely the result of a short circuit.

ASHBURN, Va. -- A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an ...

The center wing fuel tank on a Boeing 747-100 sits in the belly between the two wings. Directly below the tank are the air conditioning packs that generate large amounts of heat. The National ...

The explosion took place in the center fuel tank of the Boeing 747 jet. While the investigators could not pinpoint the exact source of the detonation, the general causes were clear. The tank ...