This Boeing 747 doesn't carry passengers, nor is it a freighter plane... it carries a far more horrifying and deadly cargo of nuclear blastic weapons. With a capacity to fly across the ocean and ...

Some 55 years after the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, four airlines still fly passenger versions, including ...

Only a few of the greatest purchasers of the Boeing 747 were US airlines, and some still have them in service.

The world's largest plane will be longer than Wembley Stadium and bigger than a Boeing 747 - and below we look inside the ...

Airbus is terminating its charter cargo business, which used funky freighter aircraft to transport oversize loads, after less ...

In fact, a lithium battery fire caused the crash of UPS Flight 6 in 2010, which was a Boeing 747 that was known for carrying ...

Network Airline Management (NAM) has added a Boeing 747-400 nose-loading production freighter to its fleet as it works ...

Ronald Lam, CEO of Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific, mentions the significance of cargo operations for the Cathay Group ...

All Nippon Airways has received the regulatory green light for its proposed takeover of local rival Nippon Cargo Airlines.

The jet stream has been pushing airliners across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at high speed, with some west-to-east ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...