The wreckage of a military plane found this month on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people aboard, military officials said Wednesday.

The Alaska National Guard discovered the wreckage and possibly bones June 10 on Colony Glacier, about 40 miles east of Anchorage. The wreckage was spotted soon after the heavy transport plane ...

A North Carolina family of four, including two school-age children, died when their small plane crashed as they flew back ...

In 2015, Rocereta flew his plane up to the Eldridge Glacier and took some photos. He would use the images to determine which ice lobe might contain plane debris from the original impact.

A lucky Buddha figurine, a flight suit, several 3-cent stamps, a crumpled 1952 Mass schedule for St. Patrick’s Church in Washington, D.C., and 480 bags containing individual human remains.

More than 60 years after an American military transport plane crashed into glacier-clad mountain terrain in the wilds of Alaska, the remains of 17 of the 52 people who perished in the accident ...

Two sets of human remains and debris from a plane crash surfaced in the Swiss Alps this summer, where glaciers are melting due to rising temperatures.

In September of 1950, an Icelandic Airlines plane carrying cargo back from Luxembourg went down over the Vatnajökull glacier, in the southeast of the island.

About 150 U.S. troops stationed in Italy arrived in the village of Meiringen, at the foot of the glacier, to climb the mountain in search of survivors. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

A tourist plane and a helicopter have crashed above the Rutor glacier in northwestern Italy, killing at least five and injuring two. (Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico) ...