Officials grounded a plane in Portugal for four days earlier this month after an unlikely cargo came loose and threatened to cause havoc onboard the aircraft. The TAP Air Portugal …
Photo: Anna Zvereva / Wikimedia Commons Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have …
Photo: Kevin Carter (Getty Images) When travelers say they hope to reach their destination in one piece, they sometimes mean it literally. An American Airlines flight departing Daniel K. Inouye …
Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP (Getty Images) Believe it or not, commercial planes aren’t designed to collide with anything except adorably aloof birds at both 575 miles per hour while …
Planes don’t bend that way. Image: 6abc Philadelphia via YouTube Airports might seem like organized chaos at times, but believe it or not there’s a careful choreography going on to …
Modern passenger planes are pretty impressive machines. They carry hundreds of people for thousands of miles, pack in luxury trimmings like showers and can even hit supersonic speeds in the …
Photo: Jan Jankai / Facebook A laptop sparked a small fire on an American Airlines flight last Friday before the plane even rolled back from the gate in San Francisco. …
Taylor Swift and her all encompassing Eras Tour took America by storm last year, breaking concert attendance records, sparking a political debate about how we buy tickets and proving that …
Imaging getting off your flight to a scene like this. Screenshot: ABC News via YouTube It’s a scary time to be flying these days; if it’s not deadly turbulence made …
The fire broke out on a Boeing, sorry force of habit, Airbus plane in Seattle. Screenshot: King 5 Seattle via Youtube Passengers onboard a Delta flight From Mexico were forced …