For many 747-400 freighters, the cost of a major engine overhaul can exceed the market value of the airframe itself.

Social media videos claim Israel destroyed Iran’s last KC-747 tanker during a strike on Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport. The exact aircraft seen in the viral footage remains unconfirmed, and neither Iran ...

Following the crash of a US Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” refueling jet in Iraq on Thursday (March ...

On February 24, 1989, United Airlines Flight 811 suffered a violent decompression when a cargo door failure tore a massive hole in the side of a Boeing 747 over the Pacific. With oxygen systems ...

Airports have several ways of pumping fuel to airliners, and the speed of the system matters a lot in how long it takes to ...

A US F/A-18F Super Hornet being refuelled. A KC-135 Stratotanker has crashed in Iraq An American refuelling plane has crashed in Iraq, US Central Command has announced. A rescue mission is under way ...

As one of the world’s most frequent flyers, CNN’s Richard Quest has an encyclopaedic knowledge of airlplanes, having flown in most of them. From the BAC 1-11 to the A380, here are his favorites.

On September 3, 2010, UPS Flight 6 departed Dubai, United Arab Emirates, bound for Cologne, Germany, when a catastrophic fire ...

Iran has threatened for the first time to attack civilian infrastructure in a neighboring country, urging people to evacuate ...

The flotilla of Navy ships with Marines and their vehicles packed aboard will bring a very flexible set of capabilities to Operation Epic Fury.

He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reports.