RAF crash pilots served in wars
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Two pilots killed at RAF Marham in Norfolk had both flown missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, it emerges.
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Poland had a strong resistance - but the uprising was crushed Historians in Poland have discovered the wreckage of a World War II RAF Halifax bomber along with the remains of its British and Canadian crew.Comment
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Fourteen British military personnel have  been killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan, Sky Television  quoted the Ministry of Defense as saying on Saturday.
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Fourteen armed personnel have died when their aircraft flying a NATO mission crashed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed.
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The American pilot whose F-16 crashed in Iraq earlier this week was described by military members and his family as a husband and father of five who always completed his missions.
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Ordered to sacrifice themselves for the nation by crashing their planes into U.S. warships as Japan vainly battled to stave off invasion in the final months of World War Two, some young pilots instead returned alive.
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A pilot of a British Airways jet which crash-landed at Heathrow recounts his ordeal.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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The bodies of servicemen killed in a RAF plane crash in Iraq are due to be returned to the UK on Tuesday, Geoff Hoon says.
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A British Army helicopter crashed in the Czech Republic during a military exercise, Czech Army spokeswoman Sabina Introvicova said.
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An independent inquiry has concluded thousands of Gulf War veterans were made ill by their service. Shaun Rusling and Noel Baker, who have experienced a variety of illnesses since serving in the Gulf, are
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In early October 1942, Flight Lieutenant Donald McLarty was shot down over Libya on his 199th mission of World War Two. Although he was flying for Britain's Royal Air Force, his uniform was emblazoned with an unexpected word: Argentina.
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A number of British military personnel  died when an air force transport plane crashed northwest of  Baghdad on Sunday, Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
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Around 400 UK military personnel are involved in an operation to rescue hundreds of Britons from violence in the Ivory Coast. An MoD spokesman said two RAF Hercules aeroplanes had landed in nearby Ghana carrying around two hundred people to safety.
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LONDON - British military aircraft scrambled Sunday to assist a civilian passenger aircraft after an incident, the Ministry of Defense said, adding that the jets later returned to base.    The ministry said the incident was over but gave no further details...
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LONDON, Feb. 6 -- A dramatic cockpit recording leaked to a British newspaper captures two American pilots reacting in horror and disbelief after one of them mistakenly fired on a convoy of British armored vehicles in Iraq. Told that an allied soldier has died, a pilot is heard saying, "I'm going to...
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.