Japan's upcoming upper house election is set for July 20, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba decided not to extend the current parliamentary session, the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday, citing ...

Aviation experts say it is not so straightforward because aircraft vary widely in seat configurations, crashes are unique and ...

The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax," urging people not to worry because even the ...

North Korea successfully launched a 5,000-ton destroyer that was damaged during its first launch attempt last month, ...

When Boeing announced its plans for the Dreamliner in 2004, it pitched the plane as a revolution in commercial aviation: a ...

LONDON and DELHI -- An Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members en route to the United Kingdom crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Thursday, leaving 246 dead and at ...

Air India Flight 171, bound for London with 242 passengers and crew aboard, went down shortly after departing Ahmedabad ...

One passenger survived the crash but everyone else aboard the Boeing 787 was killed. More people died on the ground after the ...

A jet that crashed en route to London from India had carried hundreds of passengers to and from Australia just days earlier.

The ill-fated aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – a jet once marketed as a revolution in air travel. First delivered in ...