Early long-range jet airliners transformed global travel. Explore how the 707, DC-8, VC10, and Il-62 reshaped ...

Six decades ago today, on 4 October 1958, a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 became the first jet airliner to fly revenue passenger services across the Atlantic, operating in each direction between London ...

As it soared close to Japan’s Mount Fuji on a cloudless day in March 1966, a BOAC 707 jet was suddenly battered by tremendous gusts of wind that broke it apart. All 124 persons aboard were killed.

A BOAC Boeing 707 jet enroute to Tel Aviv and Australia with an undisclosed number of Israelis among its 131 passengers, crashed in flames at London Airport today. An airline spokesman said there were ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of a seminal moment in commercial aviation: the start of transatlantic jet services. While jet travel was nothing particularly new by 1958, the launch of services ...

In 1958, Ghana Airways burst onto the scene as the national carrier of Ghana. The airline was a joint venture between the government of Ghana, which held a 60 percent stake, and the British Overseas ...