Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements are discussed in the Risk Factors section ... the airplane is likely to incur a tail strike ...

Col. Holbrook said. “Ultimately the crew of that airplane were lucky, because from what my guys told me, that plane was in the ice with the tail refrozen, and if that tail hadn’t refrozen ...

On March 8, 2025, the tail section of an IndiGo Airbus A321 Neo aircraft from Mumbai hit the runway at the Chennai airport during landing. The aircraft registered as VT-IBI was also involved in a ...

A second-by-second accounting of last month’s spectacularly bad landing and subsequent evacuation of the passenger jet that ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

In short, deicing is necessary because snow and ice on airplane wings can decrease lift by as much as 30%. Lift is the vertical upward force that keeps a plane in the sky. It is generated when air ...

In early February, a Japan Airlines plane was taxiing on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport when it apparently clipped the tail of a parked Delta plane. There were no injuries ...