Flight attendants may require window shades to be up during takeoff and landing for passenger safety. Open windows let ...

(CNN) — A Delta Air Lines plane aborted its takeoff Wednesday morning after a window came open in the cockpit. Delta Flight 2261, a Boeing 737 scheduled to fly from Minneapolis to Las Vegas, was ...

A Southwest Airlines pilot was removed from duty and arrested just moments before he was scheduled to fly a commercial jet from Georgia to Chicago, after failing a sobriety test on the tarmac. The ...

Most travelers probably didn't give much thought to the security of airliner cockpits before the 9/11 attacks, and since then it might seem odd to some that cockpit doors are often left wide open ...

A small plane crash in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, resulted in two fatalities and one injury. The aircraft, a Socata TBM 700, went down on Interstate 195 shortly after taking off from New Bedford ...

The National Transportation Safety Board provided a preliminary report last week on the fatal June 29 airplane crash just west of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. But it did not discuss an ...

Mayday declared FILE PHOTO: A United Airlines flight that had taken off from Washington Dulles International Airport had to return shortly after takeoff when the pilot told air traffic control that ...

A United Airlines flight was diverted shortly after departing Washington Dulles International Airport on Friday, July 25, when an engine failure caused the pilot to make a mayday call. United Flight ...

I fly frequently as a travel writer, and I never feel any real fear of flying, except during particularly rough turbulence—the kind where the plane is slamming up and down, and rocking back and forth.

A 52-year-old Southwest Airlines pilot, 52-year-old David Paul Allsop, was arrested back in January 2025 for allegedly being intoxicated before takeoff. Newly released bodycam footage shows the moment ...