Is the F-27 Fokker twin propeller commuter airplane a "flying coffin?" The STAR culled a list of Fokker mishaps, some of them fatal, from the Internet. The website ...

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The Fairchild F-27, the U.S.-built version of the Fokker F27 Friendship, made its first flight on November 24, 1955. Built ...

On Jun. 21, an Indonesian Air Force Fokker F-27, crashed into a residential area of Jakarta, Indonesia, while landing at the Halim Perdanakusuma airport at the end of a routine training flight, around ...

Beneath the palm trees in tropical Queensland, floral tributes will soon swamp a stone monument as loved ones from across the state mark 64 years since harrowing loss forever changed their families ...

Kazakh carrier Bek Air has disclosed details of the in-flight upset which affected the Fokker 100 which crashed on take-off from Almaty on 27 December. Bek Air states that the aircraft’s airframe and ...

During the drills, Tehran’s maritime patrol aircraft overflying the Strait of Hormuz and Sea of Oman have had some close encounters with U.S. Navy and UAE vessels operating in the same waters.

Fourteen years after being plucked from bankruptcy by Dutch conglomerate Stork, one of the most famous names in European aircraft manufacturing has its old brand back. The change at the end of 2009 ...