A Ryanair jet en route from London managed to crash into a barrier — damaging its wing — after touching down at an airport in Greece. The plane’s wing tip collided with an airfield fence at the ...

A commercial airline landing in McAllen scraped the runway with its wing Tuesday while passengers were on board. American Eagle flight 5786, a Bombardier CRJ900 jet operated by Mesa Airlines, landed ...

There's no denying just how critical aircraft wings are. For one, they provide storage for an aircraft's fuel that keeps it a safe distance from the cabin containing passengers and crew. This saved 80 ...

Earlier this week, a flap came loose on a Delta Air Lines operated Boeing 737 mid-flight. Fortunately, the plane landed safely and no one was injured. Parts falling off of a passenger jet's wing ...

A routine inspection turned into a security scare when maintenance crews found damage on an American Airlines jet shortly after ...

The wing of a passenger plane landing at LaGuardia International Airport in New York struck the runway surface Sunday as it attempted a “go-around” because of an unstable approach, officials said.

A flap from a Delta Airlines plane plummeted from the sky and onto a driveway in North Carolina early Wednesday. The fragment found in a residential Raleigh neighborhood splintered off a Boeing 737 ...

Wing flaps are movable surfaces located on the trailing edge of the wings and are typically deployed during specific phases of takeoff and landing. The majority of planes have these, whether jets or ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A family in Raleigh, North Carolina was in shock upon discovering a plane’s wing flap in their driveway Wednesday morning. Delta Flight 3247 had taken off from Atlanta just ...

Safe landing even in poor visibility conditions The autopilot in aircraft navigates using GPS signals as standard. However, ...