When a plane crashes or goes missing, we become obsessed with knowing exactly what happened. Such tragedies, though statistically rare, capture our attention because it feels inexplicable to lose so ...

How long will we remember the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared back in 2014? About 45 years, say scientists who used Wikipedia page views to develop a new way of studying our collective memory ...

Airline crashes are traumatic, violent, and dominate the news cycle from the moment a plane veers off radar. It’s no surprise that nearly 1500 Wikipedia articles exist documenting disastrous airline ...