Pan Am, the standard-bearer for all airlines forevermore, is returning this summer with a luxurious, private jet expedition ...

Just days after the Pan American World Airways flight 7 vanished into thin air, floating debris and 19 bodies from PAA-944 were found in the Pacific Ocean but the cause of crash remains shrouded in my ...

Vonnie Duncan wonders what happened with the children she helped and hopes her efforts made a positive difference.

In the sleekly aerondynamic world of aviation, it looks a bit odd, but the Boeing 747 has a hump atop it. The reason goes ...

All passengers and crew members aboard the KLM plane lost their lives, while at least 330 people on the Pan Am plane died.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of Vietnamese orphans to the U.S., Australia, ...

T he Boeing 747 is a truly iconic aircraft, both in appearance and in how it revolutionized the aviation industry. The aircraft entered commercial service in January 1970 with Pan ...

If you've ever seen what looks like a beluga whale with wings on the runway — or better yet, flown in one — there's a good chance it was the Boeing 747 ... service with Pan Am a year later.

On board the empty Pan Am 747, a handful of women volunteered to ... "My sisters, of course, so scared," Duong-Iwafuchi said. On the flight, the women packed extra uniforms and wigs.

two Boeing 747 passenger jets—KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736—collided on a runway at Tenerife island, killing 583 people. Ziomek spoke with Air & Space senior associate editor Diane ...