The Garuda Indonesia jet was taking off from the Indonesian city of Makassar en route to Saudi Arabia -- with many passengers heading on pilgrimage to Mecca -- when the drama unfolded at 5:15 p.m ...

A person has died at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands after they were sucked into the engine of a plane preparing for takeoff. A KLM Embraer jet bound for Denmark was full of ...

On planes like the Airbus A318ceo, the engines produce between 24,500 and 32,900 pounds of thrust, while on the Boeing P-8 Poseidon , they generate between 27,980 and 30,000 pounds.

A plane mechanic has finally explained the viral video of “duct tape” on an airliner jet engine — and revealed what it’s really used for. “We looked out of our window and saw this ...

While the GE9X is — without a doubt — the largest engine ever put on a plane; as of 2025, the sole GE9X-powered aircraft (the Boeing 777X) won't enter commercial service before 2026.

In The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters, out today, Steve Pace starts instead with the Bell Aircraft Corporation’s P-59 Airacomet, the first jet airplane built and flown in the United States.

Consider a GE90 engine, which hangs below the wings of planes like the Boeing 777. The company says that one of those will suck in about 3,600 pounds of air every second when a plane is taking off.

An F-16C assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, crashed in early 2024 when a fan blade broke off in a the 'blind spot' of its engine, an accident investigation board found.