It seems hard to imagine now, but in the 1960s and 1970s, huge numbers of scheduled airflights were hijacked, most of them by lone nutters armed to the teeth.
A South Carolina man believes he may have discovered the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Video shows the Ilyushin Il-76 plunging from the sky and smashing into the ground in front of horrified locals in the Korochansky district this morning.
An investigator trying to solve the haunting mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has accused the Malaysian government of halting the search despite some promising leads.
After their plane crashed and they were stranded in the snowy wastes of the Andes mountains in Argentina, Roberto Canessa (pictured) and the other survivors of Flight 571 were starving.
The plane is believed to have overshot the runway during take-off from Lizard Island, about 240km North of Cairns, and collided with trees at about 7.20am on Monday.
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