It's an unfortunate fact of flying, but sometimes, planes crash. Some even do it more than others, but only one has ever crashed with such a frequency that a creepy Soviet Folk song was written about ...

Converted from a bomber airframe, the Tu-104 carried jet travel into Soviet civilian service at unprecedented speed. But instability, stall behavior, and system failures soon emerged in service. A ...

In the race to modernize air travel, the Soviet Union introduced the TU-104—a jet airliner built from a repurposed bomber. While it was a symbol of Soviet technological prowess, this aircraft quickly ...