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Air travel is safer than ever — and 'continues to get better' — despite recent midair fiascos: MIT study
Aviation researchers have reassured passengers that the likelihood of a deadly plane crash is just a blip on the radar.
Passenger captures extreme turbulence on Spirit Airlines
A passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Fort Lauderdale filmed fellow travelers screaming with fright on Aug. 3. The videographer is the son of a pilot and...
Cause of death revealed for 8-year-old who died during mid-flight medical episode
Little Sydney Weston, 8, died on June 13 after becoming unresponsive while flying with her parents from Joplin, Mo., to a vacation in Chicago.
We got trapped in a sweltering 'sauna' airplane — we were so hot, we couldn't breathe
Passengers suffered from panic attacks after their plane's air conditioning malfunctioned and they were held for two hours before the flight was canceled.
Frontier Airlines pilot dragged off flight by cops after 'assault-family violence' warrant issued for his arrest
Seymour Walker, 45, was arrested on a warrant for "assault-family violence."
I was seated next to a plus-size plane passenger — I complained and the airline surprised me
They weren't going to let this space invasion slide.
Southwest passenger describes flying 150 feet over Florida waters after pilot calmly blames 'gusty winds'
At its lowest point, the Boeing 737 Max 8 was only 150 feet over the water, and still 4 miles from its destination.
Southwest plane dramatically drops to 150 feet over water in dangerous descent
A Southwest Airlines jet dropped to a dangerous 150 feet above the water while it was nearly five miles from its landing spot at the airport in Tampa, Florida, federal...
I was forced to live in an airport for days due to repeat flight cancellations — here's what it was like
Now, this just won’t fly.
Woman stabbed multiple times at Miami airport in apparent random attack, sending passengers into panic
The horrific ordeal happened in the international greeters lobby, where the woman was attacked around 11:30 p.m., ABC reported.
Plane passenger gets handwritten boarding pass amid Microsoft outage
Airline passenger Akshay Kothari was flabbergasted after receiving a hand-scrawled boarding pass amid the Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage affecting computer systems across the globe.
Drunk passengers cause chaos on flight after bringing own booze
More like "spirit" airlines?
Horrified passenger spots his suitcases left on tarmac before takeoff: 'I can't handle this'
Never leave a bag behind. An airplane passenger was aghast after spying his luggage on the runway right before takeoff.
Flight attendant forced to hold up bathroom door that came loose minutes into 16-hour flight to New York
A female flight attendant was forced to hold a bathroom door shut aboard a 16-hour flight from Hong Kong to New York this week after the door seemingly snapped off...
Freaked-out plane passengers trapped on tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare as 'tornado warning' alerts blare from cellphones
"We could definitely feel it moving us."
Couple barred from flight over 'embarrassing' passport issue
It was tea-totalled.
Smoking laptop causes panicked evacuation of American Airlines plane, injures 3 at San Francisco airport
“It was desperate until someone opened the middle door and we were able to escape."
Irate passenger in 'Scarface' shirt bites chunk out of flight attendant's uniform on Newark-bound plane
During the scuffle, the woman thrashed her head around before chowing down on the male flight attendant's shirt and yanking pieces of cloth off, cell phone video obtained by TMZ...
Wheel on American Airlines Boeing plane bursts into flames before takeoff
An American Airlines Boeing 737 was forced to abort after one of its wheels began to smoke — and eventually exploded — just as the plane was about to take...