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 ...

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 ...

Disastrous current events trigger collective memory of certain past events, a new study of nearly 1,500 Wikipedia articles on airplane crashes and other incidents reports. The results, which provide a ...

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 ...

Readers of the online open-access encyclopædia Wikipedia have raised concerns that the entries of both Airbus and Boeing have been altered in possibly deliberately misleading ways. Members of the ...

Major tragedies such as plane crashes can capture the world’s attention for months or even years as we pore over the facts to figure out what went wrong, but how long will we remember these events ...