A full millennium before the rise of the first commercial airplane, acquiring these birds would have been no easy task.

In that encounter, two experienced airline pilots claimed a torpedo-shaped object nearly collided with their commercial airplane.

As volcanic ash can induce engine failure, it puts commercial airplanes in particular at high risk.

Carbon brakes became widely available for commercial airplanes in the 1980s.

The internal structure was largely constructed with graphite composite/aluminum honeycomb supports, a design found in many commercial airplanes.