Global aviation safety refers to the international system of regulations, investigations, and technologies designed to prevent accidents in commercial and civi…
On 17 December 1903, Orville Wright flew the Flyer I for 12 seconds over the sands of Kitty Hawk — covering 37 metres at roughly 11 km/h. The aircraft had no safety syst…
Fifty-two nations signed the Convention on International Civil Aviation in Chicago on 7 December 1944, creating the architecture that governs global air travel to this d…
On 30 June 1956, a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 and a TWA Lockheed Constellation collided over the Grand Canyon at approximately 6,400 metres, killing all 128 people abo…
From 1 January 1974, ICAO's Annex 6 required all turbine-powered commercial aircraft to carry both a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) — the…
On 27 March 1977, a KLM Boeing 747 began its take-off roll at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife and struck a Pan Am 747 that was still taxiing on the same runway in heavy f…
On 28 April 1988, a Boeing 737-200 operated by Aloha Airlines suffered explosive decompression at 7,300 metres when an 18-foot section of the forward cabin roof tore awa…
On 17 July 1996, TWA Flight 800 — a Boeing 747 — exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 12 minutes after takeoff from JFK Airport, killing all 230 aboard. After a…
The hijacking of four commercial aircraft on 11 September 2001 — used as weapons killing approximately 3,000 people — exposed catastrophic gaps in airport security that…
On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447 — an Airbus A330 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris — stalled and plunged into the South Atlantic, killing all 228 aboard. The a…
On 29 October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 — a brand-new Boeing 737 MAX 8 — plunged into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 aboard. Investi…
On 7 August 2020, Air India Express Flight 1344 — repatriating Indians stranded abroad during the COVID-19 lockdown — overran the runway at Calicut International Airport…
On 29 December 2024, Jeju Air Flight 2216 — a Boeing 737-800 — belly-landed without its main undercarriage deployed at Muan International Airport and struck a concrete l…
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