Business
Good news for all of you white-knuckle fliers: 2015 was another safe year for commercial air travel worldwide.
Feb. 21, 2016
World & Nation
Feb. 22, 2016
U.S. intelligence agencies are operating under the theory that a bomb exploded on the Russian jetliner that crashed Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula but have not gathered definitive evidence on what brought the aircraft down, said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments.
Nov. 4, 2015
Opinion
As Tuesday’s tragedy in Belgium made clear, air travel remains vulnerable to determined terrorists.
March 24, 2016
Britain’s foreign secretary called Tuesday for a broad reexamination of global air-safety practices in light of the deadly Oct. 31 crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt.
Nov. 10, 2015
Aviation: Jetliner lands safely after emergency. Two previous crashes of the Boeing model occurred before a similar sudden movement.
Feb. 26, 1999
Russian political and aviation authorities on Monday advanced conflicting theories on the cause of a deadly charter jet crash over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, with some ruling out pilot error and mechanical failure to suggest the Metrojet Airbus A321 was brought down by a terrorist bomb or missile.
Nov. 2, 2015
The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, broke up high in the air, an official said Sunday, bolstering theories that the craft had a preexisting problem that led to structural failure.
Nov. 1, 2015
British Prime Minister David Cameron declared Thursday it was “more likely than not” that a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers.
Nov. 5, 2015
Investigators are trying to determine what led to the sudden and catastrophic breakup of a Metrojet plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, just 23 minutes after the Russian-operated jetliner took off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.