Following our investigations into ValuJet flight 592 in May 1996, and TWA flight 800 in July 1996, as well as foreign investigations involving SilkAir flight 185 in December 1997, and Swissair ...

William Langewiesche, whose extraordinary body of white-knuckle narrative reporting from all parts of the globe appeared in these pages over a period of decades, died earlier this week at the age of ...

William Langewiesche died on Sunday. He was a damn titan. Langewiesche hit his stride in longform magazine journalism round about 1998, applying the concept of system accidents to the downing of ...

Langewiesche investigated aviation disasters of every kind, whether the nosedive of Valujet 592 or the incineration of the space shuttle Columbia.

A Spirit Airlines flight at Detroit Metro was evacuated Thursday after a Michigan man allegedly called in a bomb threat that prompted K-9 searches and passenger rescreening.

Severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said in a statement Thursday.

William Langewiesche, professional pilot, journalist, and author of nine books, died on June 15, 2025. He was 70. He wrote for many publications, including a stint at FLYING Magazine in the late ...

Passengers on the flight had to deboard. The Los Angeles-bound plane was boarded and sitting on the tarmac at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, when passengers were forced to deplane over ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil.

An Air India plane crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. The flight had 242 people on board and was departing for London ...