Video of the actual crash is here picked by tigertony 8 months ago

"John McCain became hostile with the N.Y. Times' Elisabeth Bumiller on the campaign's plane today"

I wouldnt call it "hostile" but still a decent clip picked by trushafty38 2 years ago

Repeated complaints by a woman passenger concerned about six men speaking Arabic on a San Diego to Chicago American Airlines flight prevented take-off. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I thought it was bad enough to be seated near the toilets on any flight. Imagine when your over the ocean and the toilets erupt and flow down the aisle. and all the toilets are out of order. Hope you can hold it for 7 hours. picked by pulsisx 2 years ago

Passengers returning from a holiday in Menorca were told to expect an eight hour delay while they waited for a mechanic to fly out from Manchester to fix a fault.

An unidentified passenger then let it be known that he was a qualified aircraft engineer and proceeded to fix the fault himself, allowing the flight to arrive a mere 35 minutes late. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

A search has been launched for a passenger aircraft with 102 people on board -- including 11 children -- that went missing in Indonesia after sending distress signals. picked by teaya21 3 years ago

Flying at more than twice the speed of Concorde and five times the speed of sound, this hypersonic airliner is set to be the future of modern air travel. Looking like a supersonic passenger plane from Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, the revolutionary aircraft with a top speed of 3,400mph aims to fly between London (or Brussels)and Sydney in under five hours. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

...if you get arrested for disorderly conduct on that plane and get thrown off of it! picked by tigertony 1 year ago

Spc. Heather Davey put a $587 plane ticket on her credit card so she could go home for the holidays, figuring she would worry later about how to pay for it. The 34-year-old mother of two has one less worry now. picked by mandolinorange 2 years ago

Amazing that no one was killed, especially looking at the picture! picked by Moe 2 years ago

A British holiday plane was diverted to France after a couple became embroiled in a "drunken" air-rage fight at 35,000ft over the Mediterranean.Eyewitnesses said the woman passenger "took a bite out of the face" of her boyfriend or husband. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Garrison Keillor once again makes sense. picked by dollyllama 3 years ago

*Enter snakes on a plane joke here* picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

Gibraltar Airport (which is not part of Spain as a lot of readers pointed out) is a very unusual airport. To my knowledge, it is the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. When a plane has to take off or land, traffic is shut down. picked by evadiva 5 months ago

Goggles lets you be the pilot and fly a plane over the Google Maps of various cities. The plane can also shoot although nothing is actually destroyed. picked by arrch8 3 years ago

"After coming across this lovely image depicting the construction of a fly powered matchstick airplane, I had to try it for myself." picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A Spanish emergency rescue official says there are only 26 survivors after an airliner with 173 people aboard crashed on takeoff from Madrid's airport. The official with the SAMUR municipal rescue service gave the toll after touring the site of Wednesday's crash. picked by loonytoon 1 year ago

Flight restrictions imposed around Manhattan after New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his single-engine plane into an apartment tower will be made permanent, government documents indicate.

I say it's about time picked by suebe 3 years ago

Not for the faint of heart...this is both the transcripts and in some cases actual recordings of the final conversations of plane crash cockpit recordings. picked by Moe 2 years ago

Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, an official said. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago