Seconds after taking off from San Francisco, a United Airlines Boeing 747 shudders violently as one of its engines starts to fail. The intense vibrations terrify the passengers, and are so strong that ...

A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter, one of the largest cargo planes in the world, mistakenly landed at a tiny Kansas Airport last night. Now will have to take off from a runway that's significantly shorter ...

For the Boeing 747, under ideal conditions, the aircraft must reach a speed of 184 mph to take off. Cruising speed is the ...

The world's largest plane will be longer than Wembley Stadium and bigger than a Boeing 747 - and below we look inside the ...

DALLAS — Today at 11:34 PST, in 1969, the prototype Boeing 747 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington, for the first time ...

Almost ten years after the last Boeing 747 rolled off the production line, China is drawing up plans to build its own ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

Middle Eastern carrier Emirates’ SkyCargo division has taken its Boeing 747 freighter fleet to six, as the company continues to weigh its future cargo aircraft options. Emirates says it has ...