The second-worst tragedy involving a Boeing 747 is the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka on August 12, 1985. 524 people on board the aircraft lost their lives when the plane ...

The jumbo jet, a Boeing 747-SR model, never made it to its destination. At around 6:56 p.m., the plane crashed into a ridge on Mount Osutakayama in Gunma Prefecture. The crash killed 520 ...

A decommissioned Boeing ... plane’s cockpit, was loaded onto a transport trailer early Wednesday, then moved on surface streets to the Area15 campus. The cockpit section of the fuselage from the ...

English heavy metal band Iron Maiden once sang, “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter,” but when it comes to dismantling the band’s Boeing 747-400 tour plane, it’s a little more complicated.

The deadliest plane crash in history occurred on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport in Spain. The crash killed 583 people. Since then, the number of ...

The cockpit and section of the fuselage of the Boeing 747 were towed Wednesday from a spot at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on the northern part of the city to a nearby entertainment district known ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing commercial airplanes head Stephanie Pope will focus on the recovery of the company's crucial and challenged plane-making unit under a reorganization that ends her role ...