After a long trend toward greater safety in air travel, there has been an uptick in airline accidents and deaths in 2018 and 2019. Many aviation experts regard that recent increase as a statistical ...

A spate of deadly plane crashes in 2025 has already rocked aviation – and the year has only just started. At least 300 people have been killed in air accidents since the start of 2025, with the latest ...

The fatal airline accident level in 2025 was below the annual average for the last 10 years, but the number of individual fatalities was well above average. The principal reason for the relatively ...

A homebuilt light aircraft crashed while on approach to Gloucestershire Airport after suffering from engine power loss. According to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report [PDF, via BBC] ...

A plane carrying nearly 190 people smashed into a fence while the tug driving instructor focused on advising a trainee, an investigation has found. The Ryanair plane, with 181 passengers and six crew ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday clarified that the ongoing investigation into the Air India plane crash, which killed 260 people in June, was intended to determine the cause of the disaster and ...

SEOUL, South Korea – A passenger plane with 181 people on board skidded on the runway at a high speed and slammed into a wall before exploding into flames. Two crew members were rescued alive from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. An airplane takes off as a large portion of the damaged ...

SYDNEY/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's poor air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after take-off on Saturday, ...