The danger is real. The deadliest air disaster in history occurred on a runway. On March 27, 1977, a KLM Boeing 747 collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747 on a runway on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

As planned by Boeing, the 747 was long popular with cargo operators thanks to its unobstructed fuselage and vast capacity. It could take off with a payload of up to 970,000lbs.

The Boeing 747 is one of the primary long-range wide-body airplanes flown throughout the world. These four-engine passenger ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over Washington State. Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at SNC’s Aviation Innovation and Technology Center. Sierra Nevada ...

Since their Boeing shuttle malfunctioned in June, what was supposed to be just a short eight-day trip has turned into another disaster for the aerospace manufacturer — as the astronauts have ...

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...

Airlines could cut fares by packing over 300 passengers in the double-decker plane, which had the lowest seat-mile cost in the industry at the time. The world's first Queen of the Skies flew in ...

SCHIPHOL, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - 2018/11/11: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 777-300. A Boeing ... [+] 777-300 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with registration PH-BVK is landing at Amsterdam ...

Australian airline Qantas has bid farewell to its last Boeing 747 aeroplane with one final flourish - drawing its logo, the flying kangaroo, in the sky. Dozens gathered at Sydney Airport on ...

Several types of Boeing aircraft’s production have been affected as approximately 33,000 unionized workers in the Pacific Northwest have remained on the picket lines. Boeing workers with the ...

Boeing and the union representing striking machinists have negotiated a new contract proposal that would provide bigger pay raises and bonuses in a bid to end a costly walkout that has crippled ...