ANA Flight 58: The Midair That Killed 162 Over Shizukuishi
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
Feng Ru: The Man Who Built China’s First Aeroplane in Oakland
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
Adrienne Bolland: She Flew the Andes With 40 Hours
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
Aeroflot 366: The Tu-124 That Ditched in the Neva
On 21 August 1963 a Tupolev Tu-124 ran out of fuel over the middle of Leningrad, glided for fourteen seconds, cleared a bridge, and landed on the River Neva without killing anybody. A tug that happened to be towing a raft of timber past the spot cast off, came...
Cathay Pacific 1954: Shot Down Off Hainan by Chinese Fighters
Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets behind their seats....
JP Aerospace Teases a Hypersonic Dropped From an Airship
Last week a volunteer-run space programme in Rancho Cordova, California, released some pictures. They show a dark, wing-shaped vehicle called Hazel dropping away from twin balloons joined by a long truss, high above the Earth. They are stills from an animation. There...
Delta Resumes JFK-Tel Aviv After a Six-Month War Gap
DL234 pushed back from JFK Terminal 4 on Sunday afternoon and landed at Ben Gurion on Monday morning. An Airbus A330-900neo, 281 seats, ten and three quarter hours eastbound. It is an entirely ordinary flight, and it had not operated since 28 February. That was the...
ANA Orders Eight More E190-E2s Before Its First One Arrives
Airlines do not usually order more of an aircraft they have never flown. ANA has just ordered eight. Embraer announced the deal from Tokyo on 4 September, formalising a decision the ANA Holdings board took on 29 July. It takes ANA’s firm order for the E190-E2...
Anak Krakatau Eruption Closes Eight Indonesian Airports
At 23:07 on Friday night, local time, Anak Krakatau started throwing lava into the sky and did not stop for twenty-five hours. People heard the booming 700 kilometres away. By Sunday morning the biggest airport in Southeast Asia’s fourth-largest country was...
Amazon 767 Overruns the Runway at Miami and Catches Fire
Developing story. This account is based on the FAA, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Amazon and initial reporting on the afternoon of 6 September 2026. Casualty information has not been confirmed by the authorities and early details in accidents like this frequently change. A...
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