Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

Since the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was revealed back in 2007, it has represented a few firsts in the aviation industry. It was the plane that Virgin Atlantic used for the first flight fully powered on ...

An Austrian Airlines passenger plane was seriously damaged after flying through an unexpected hailstorm on Sunday, June 9. Flight OS434 was traveling from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Vienna, Austria, ...

Passenger aircraft are rather uniform, for the most part, with the familiar white color scheme of commercial planes and so on. Lots of travelers scarcely give their exteriors a second thought. There ...

Non-certified window accessories risk overheating, Airbus cautions. Credit: Airbus LYON—Airbus is recommending pilots avoid the use of non-certified equipment such as sunshades and suction cup-mounted ...

An Austrian Airlines flight landed safely in Vienna Sunday after a powerful, surprise hailstorm tore away part of the airplane’s nose and left the cockpit windows covered in cracks. Austrian Airlines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hail severely damaged an Austrian Airlines airplane’s nose and cockpit windows during a flight from Spain to Austria after the ...

(Bloomberg) — An Austrian Airlines flight landed safely in Vienna after a severe hailstorm tore away much of the plane’s nose cone and left the cockpit windows riddled with cracks. Flight OS434, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. aviation authorities advised airlines on Wednesday to inspect cockpit windows on Boeing Co. 737s after two were damaged in flight, causing one plane to lose cabin pressure.

Investigators have found that the captain of an Antonov An-28 observed ice formation on the cockpit as the aircraft climbed, before a dual engine failure that preceded a forced landing in central ...

An Austrian Airlines airplane’s nose and cockpit windows were severely damaged by hail during a flight from Spain to Austria after encountering a thunderstorm cell, officials say. Flight OS434 from ...

Hail severely damaged an Austrian Airlines airplane’s nose and cockpit windows during a flight from Spain to Austria after the flight encountered a thunderstorm cell, officials say. Subscribe to read ...