Air travel remains one of the safest forms of transportation, but some passenger jets have better safety records than others.

Despite some highly-publicized incidents, flying commercially is still safer than traveling by car. What was the worst ...

In 1974, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operated by Turkish Airlines suffered ... Two years earlier, a cargo door on American Airlines Flight 96 broke off due to a design flaw with the DC-10.

A fatal cargo door related incident did occur in 1974 on a Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10, Business Insider reported. The door's latch came loose and led to rapid decompression on the ...

The first jet was donated by United Airlines and was converted at a cost of around $1.25 million. Orbis DC-8 aircraft ... FedEx employees donated a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-30, which was equipped ...

World Airways entered the widebody era when it took delivery of one of only 13 Boeing 747-200C Convertibles ever built. Featuring an upward-opening nose to facilitate straight-in, main deck loading of ...

We are situate inside our rooms we branded "North Beach Club", at an after work prayer meeting, upstairs inside The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport. It was early October 1985, when into ...

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When it entered service with TWA on May 18, it became very popular with airlines and passengers. The airline placed the DC-2 ...