July 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1918, Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed by Bolsheviks who had held them captive for two months. Though the whereabouts of their bodies was ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said it would no longer use the wreckage of the 1996 TWA 800 crash as a teaching tool and would soon destroy it. The flight, a Boeing 747, exploded about 12 ...

Monday, July 17, was the 27th anniversary of the explosion and crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100 series wide body airliner with 230 passengers and crew aboard. All died July ...

SHIRLEY, N.Y. -- For many who lost loved ones from TWA Flight 800, the passage of 20 years has helped them carry on. Others said they never will get over the heartache from what remains one of the ...

Tears likely still flow in the small borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County just five miles east of Williamsport. It has been 26 years since the town lost some of its shining stars when Trans ...

There is no doubt that few aircraft have left a legacy as vast and profound as the Boeing 747. Known as the "Queen of the Skies," the 747 revolutionized long-haul travel and reshaped global air ...

I remember the first time I saw a Boeing 747. It appeared out of the clear summer sky, the biggest airplane I’d ever seen, bright in TWA livery with its distinctive hump. Yet it floated with ...