Seconds after taking off from San Francisco, a United Airlines Boeing 747 shudders violently as one of its engines starts to fail. The intense vibrations terrify the passengers, and are so strong that ...

The aircraft manufacturer has vowed to finally shut production lines that fixed planes instead of building new ones.

Certification and retrofit problems on two plane types are costing Lufthansa valuable lost revenue from fancy new Allegris ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has superseded an airworthiness directive (AD) that addressed a fault with both ...

Almost ten years after the last Boeing 747 rolled off the production line, China is drawing up plans to build its own ...

T he Boeing 747 program has given us icons of the skies like the earlier 747-100 and 747-200 models, as well as the ...

DALLAS — Today at 11:34 PST, in 1969, the prototype Boeing 747 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington, for the first time ...

Saudi Flight 763 had taken off from Delhi while Kazakh Flight 1907 was minutes away from landing in Delhi. A K Dutta, the ...

A Lufthansa Boeing 747 was forced to make an emergency landing when its captain fainted shortly after takeoff from ...

Although its numbers have thinned, ten airlines still operate the enormous, graceful Airbus A380 for international luxury ...

Control of the Boeing 747-8 was given to the plane's co-pilot who continued ... The 59-year-old had worked for the airline ...

Instead, the Boeing 747 entered commercial service in 1970. Cheap, large and efficient airliners like it blew Concorde out of ...