At the moment AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished from ... The jet, an Airbus 320, had logged about 23,000 hours of flight time over 13,600 flights. According to a Boeing safety study published in ...

Airline Capt. Les Abend: Details are too limited on AirAsia Flight QZ8501 to draw parallels to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 earlier this year. Airline Capt. Les Abend: ...

At first glance, the disappearance of AirAsia Flight 8501 ... plane was a Boeing 777, a wide-bodied plane meant for long distances. AirAsia's was a smaller plane, an Airbus 320.

From the moment that AirAsia ... Airlines flight 370, which disappeared off radar screens about ten months ago and still hasn’t been found. In the latter case, the Boeing 777 took off from ...

An Indonesia AirAsia Airbus ... weigh it against the Boeing 737-400, its main competitor, which also entered service in 1988. Since then, the Boeing 737-400 has had 29 flight incidents -- eight ...

Flight 9525 was carrying ... now likely almost doubled. Boeing’s data also doesn’t account for the two recent A320 accidents—the Germanwings crash and the AirAsia crash in December—though ...