It was August 9, 1978 when an Olympic Airways plane almost crashed into central Athens with the pilot managing to avoid the ...

Bruce Dickinson will pilot a Boeing 747 over six continents for Iron Maiden's 2016 tour. The rockers have announced they will travel over 55,000 miles across the globe for their 'The Book of Souls ...

At the age of nine, Paola Velasco flew with her mother from Bolivia to Lima in Peru, then onward via American Airlines to Miami, Florida. The experience changed the course of Bolivian-born Velasco’s ...

Aspiring 747 pilots were specially trained to taxi the large aircraft by riding in a mock-up of the plane’s flight deck boosted on three-story-tall stilts in a moving truck. Pilots maneuvered the ...

Among carriers whose 747 autopilots have thrown their planes into rolls are British Airways, Trans World Airlines, Air Canada and Lufthansa. The British Airways jet, on a Miami-London passenger flight ...