Boeing employees and executives watch the departure of the final 747 jet at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, from the Boeing Future of Flight Museum at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …

SERREKUNDA, Gambia—A dead man was found in the wheel bay of an airplane that flew from Gambia to Britain, Gambian authorities said this week. The unidentified body of a black male was found on a jet operated by TUI Airways—a British charter airline—that had flown from Gambia’s capital of Banjul to London’s Gatwick airport, Ebrima…

IRKUTSK, Russia—A Russian military jet crashed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and the two pilots were killed, officials said, the second such fatal incident in six days involving a Sukhoi fighter plane. In a post on Telegram, Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev said the plane crashed into a two-story…

SINGAPORE—Global jet fuel prices have surged to near 14-year highs in line with crude oil’s surge on supply shortfall worries, slamming air carriers and travellers with steep cost increases just as air travel was starting to recover from COVID-19 restrictions. Oil prices have soared to their highest since 2008 as supplies lag recovering global demand…

BEAUFORT, S.C.—Two Marines were able to eject and walk away alive when their fighter jet crashed on the family plantation of South Carolina’s former governor. The F/A-18D Hornet was on a routine flight over the Beaufort, South Carolina area, on Thursday afternoon, Marine Corp Air Station Beaufort said in a statement. At the crash site,…

DUBAI—A U.S.–built F5 jet in use by the Iranian military crashed into the wall of a school in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Monday, killing the two pilots and a person on the ground, Iranian state TV reported on Monday. The school was closed at the time of the crash just before 9 a.m….

CHICAGO—American Airlines Group Inc. said on Friday it plans to further trim its summer schedule due to Boeing Co.’s delay in delivering 787 Dreamliner jets. In a regulatory filing, the Texas-based carrier said it now expects to receive only 10 Dreamliner planes this year, not the 13 expected earlier. The remaining jets are now scheduled…

Thailand’s interest in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighters is genuine, but clearance to buy the jets is a matter for the U.S. government, a senior executive from the defense giant said on Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow, Tim Cahill, Lockheed Martin’s senior vice president for Global Business, confirmed Thailand had expressed…

Canada must boost its efforts to hold Iran to account after the regime’s forces shot down a passenger jet two years ago, family members of the victims said Saturday. At a memorial for those who died on board the Ukrainian International Airlines flight on Jan. 8, 2020, a group representing their loved ones expressed anger…

Global jet fuel markets stayed under pressure on Tuesday as more countries expanded border restrictions to keep the new Omicron coronavirus variant at bay, prompting travelers to reconsider their plans. Jet fuel demand—the biggest laggard in the oil complex—had been forecast to post the strongest growth of 550,000 barrels per day to 5.9 million bpd…