An NAMC YS-11 operated by Philippine carrier Asian Spirit reportedly overshot a runway on landing on 2 January in the central Philippines but there were no injuries.
The Japanese-made turboprop aircraft was operating a regular flight between the capital Manila and the central island of Masbate’s small airport.
It skidded off the runway on landing […]

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are attempting again to solve the 36-year-old mystery of a Northwest Orient Boeing 727 hijacking during which the perpetrator parachuted from the aircraft and vanished with $200,000 in stolen cash.
The FBI is renewing efforts to close the case, centred on Northwest flight 305 from Portland to Seattle on 24 […]

Global figures for commercial aviation crashes in 2007 show an all-time low of 23 fatal accidents, and even the number of fatal casualties, at 597, was well below the annual average for the last 10 years. This can be compared with figures for the decade 1998-2007 showing an annual average of 34.5 fatal accidents a […]

This video footage taken by a passenger of a South African Airways Boeing 737-200 shows the aircraft’s left wing hitting a stationary utility truck and tipping it over while taxing on the apron shortly after arriving into Lusaka International airport from Johannesburg.
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