Sticky Table Columns

I have a requirement to build a div in a page that contains a table of
plane details, and one of the columns (on the left - tail number)
needs to be sticky on the horizontal axis but not on the vertical axis
(i.e. when scrolling right the tail numbers need to stay visible on
the left hand side, but when scrolling down the tail numbers need to
scroll to keep up with the rest of the plane details).

I have been looking at various ways of doing this but currently to no
avail, the idea that looks most promising is to split it into two
tables and set them both to have scroll bars, the problem with this
idea was that both the tables need to be scrolled by the same amount
vertically, i could get the position of one table using the offsetTop
property but could not find a way of setting the offsetTop property
for the other table so they stay aligned. The other issue with this is
that it would be using the onscroll property which does not seem to
show any distinction between horizontal and vertical scrolls..