A routine carrier landing can turn into an emergency in seconds. In this video, we look at what happens when a pilot has no ...

In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier USS ...

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is perhaps the most recognizable American military plane of all time. It can reach subsonic speeds of over 600 mph, carry a payload of 40,000 pounds, and fly 6,000 ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most ...

On November 23, 2012, China’s domestically developed J-15 carrier-based fighter jet successfully conducted its first landing ...

Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...

Talk about nerve racking. Captain William Mahoney was piloting an AV-8B Harrier jump jet when his landing gear failed. Watch the dramatic moment the pilot skillfully performs a vertical landing on a ...

Following reports about the cancellation of a landing aid for the SRVL technique on HMS Queen Elizabeth, a Govt minister has clarified that, though ...

Sikorsky Aircraft has reached an undisclosed settlement with the families of three people who were killed in a helicopter crash in 2021.

Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with ...