At least five commercial airline crashes have been linked to deliberate actions by pilots, with three cases confirmed by official investigations and two remaining disputed.

Airline accidents are rare, but their risk is not spread evenly across a trip. Takeoff, initial climb, approach and landing compress changing speed, altitude, configuration and traffic into relatively ...

For decades, Americans have been told something reassuring every time they step onto an airplane: commercial aviation is extraordinarily safe, even safer than driving. Statistically, that remains true ...

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Even with ever-improving technology, we seem to have constant grim reminders of the catalog of air disasters recorded in the ...

Except for a few, well publicized tragedies, most passengers involved in commercial aircraft accidents are not killed or injured. However, as shown in Figure 3-1, the rate for hull loss accidents ...