The U.S. Coast Guard said two people were killed when their World War II-era plane went down in shallow water near Galveston on Wednesday. Petty Officer Steve Lehmann said the captain of a charter ...

(CNN) — Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from ...

It was, when it happened, the deadliest disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Two airliners — one, from the aging propeller-driven era; the other, at the forefront of the coming jet age — in ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in December 2024. Fourteen flyboys, young men in their 20s and late teens — some married, others just out of high school — along with their hopes and ...