Japan Airlines plans to order the standard 747-400 freighter, not the new, longer-range model that is about to be delivered to the first customer, Air France. The average cost of a 747-400 ...

Japan Airlines (JAL) has boosted its orders for 747-400 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF), with a contract for another five aircraft. Boeing says the four options included in an initial order for ...

The strength of the Asian air freight market was illustrated once again last week as Japan Airlines converted four options to firm orders for the Boeing 747-400 Converted Freighter program and ...

Video from the scene shows a 200-pound metal luggage container firmly lodged in the front end of a JAL 747-400's jet engine. It somehow got sucked in while the plane -- Flight 61 to Narita Airport ...

Air turbulence would have struck ill-fated Flight 587 with the force of a mini-tornado if it was tailing the Japan Airlines 747 jumbo too closely after takeoff, air-safety experts said yesterday.

MOSES LAKE, Wash.--The last thing you expect to see while driving down a two-lane highway in the middle of rural Washington state is a JAL 747 flying low overhead, circling, landing and then ...

TOKYO -- Japan Airlines said Monday it plans a test flight of a Boeing 747 partially powered by biofuel by early next year as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The airline, known as JAL ...