Middle Eastern carrier Emirates' SkyCargo division has taken its Boeing 747 freighter fleet to six, as the company continues ...

Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off without clearance from air traffic controllers. In an act of terrorism, nearly 3,000 people died when al-Qaida hijackers ...

The Boeing 747-100 was the first variant of the Jumbo family. The variant is easy to recognize as the type was built with six upper deck windows (only three on each side). The upper deck was not ...

When pigs fly, it gets really smelly. A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the ...

Most air passengers rarely think about what’s stored in the cargo hold below, but passengers on a recent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight were in for a surprise when the stench from live pigs ...

On Friday at 3pm local time, KLM Flight KL685 departed Amsterdam and headed for Mexico City, carrying about 250 passengers onboard. But halfway into the 12-hour flight, the pilot made a bizarre ...

The plane he was flying was a seven-year-old Boeing 747, named the Helderberg, of the type called a Combi. SAA operated two of these aircraft in its fleet in the 1980s. The idea behind the design was ...