Single-engine propeller planes are a common type of smaller aircraft. One of their unique characteristics is that the engines ...

Plane engines are always "on fire" to a certain extent. That's how a jet turbine works, after all -- fuel is constantly being burned in the combustion chamber and expelled outward to create thrust.

Photos, videos and flight tracking data reveal what happened before the flight crashed less than a minute after taking off.

Behind the scenes of flight attendant training 03:59. An airline worker who died in December after being sucked into a plane's engine was repeatedly warned about the engine and told not to get ...

The plane's owner, who is identified only as Jonathan, installed a 1.54:1 gear reduction unit to slow the propeller to a workable velocity and capped the engine's maximum speed at 4,200 RPM.

The pilot and passenger of a single-engine airplane escaped injury early Saturday after the plane crashed onto West Front Street in Buffalo, Buffalo Police Sgt. Josh Bujalski said in a news release.

Plane engines are always "on fire" to a certain extent. That's how a jet turbine works, after all — fuel is constantly being burned in the combustion chamber and expelled outward to create thrust.