But just short of its final destination at Llandow Airfield in the Vale of Glamorgan, the plane crashed - killing 80 of the 83 people on board. It was, at the time, the world's worst air disaster.

A first look at footage before the fatal crash has potentially revealed why the "aircraft would not have been able to ...

Survivors from a plane crash off the coast of County Galway are brought to Cork Airport. On Sunday 23 September 1962 a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation aircraft operated by The Flying Tigers ...

formerly Finland's chief air disaster investigator, told BBC Verify they are not an indication of a decline in aircraft safety. "It's very unlucky that we had this period of many different kind of ...

Last weekend (28 and 29 December), news outlets and social media platforms were abuzz with three separate aircraft incidents ... be the worst domestic aviation disaster in the country’s history.

AMERICA has been plagued by a slew of unfortunate plane crashes and turbulence disasters that have so far killed dozens of people and injured many. Scared passengers are now asking authorities ...

THIS is the harrowing moment the doomed South Korean plane hurtles down the runway before smashing into a wall and going up in flames. The air disaster left 179 people dead with only two surviving ...

The following day the squad, club staff, journalists and a number of other passengers boarded their British European Airways plane at Belgrade ... of the Munich Air Disaster is displayed ahead ...