Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story They had gone to a ballgame. A father and his adult son, both private pilots, flew into St. Louis to watch baseball, then climbed back into their Beechcraft Baron for the two-hour hop home to Arkansas. It was late, it was dark, and thunderstorms were...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story It is the sound every passenger dreads and every pilot trains for: a bang, a shudder, and flames licking back from the engine seconds after the wheels leave the runway. On the morning of August 10, 2026, the people aboard American Airlines Flight 1760...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story For years, Boeing quietly bankrolled three of the most interesting bets in aviation: a self-flying air taxi, a battle-tested reconnaissance drone, and the software to keep crowded skies from turning into chaos. On August 10, 2026, it handed all three...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story A short domestic hop between Corpus Christi and Dallas/Fort Worth is about as routine as flying gets. But one American Airlines flight this month quietly made history — it was the first commercial passenger service in the United States powered...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Somewhere over the North Atlantic on Sunday evening, a small object in a business-class seat pocket did what airlines now fear more than almost anything else: it began to smoke. The device was a passenger’s power bank. The aircraft was a SWISS...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on....
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did — rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a...
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