airplane safety

It’s not restricted airspace—so why do airlines avoid it? The answer has more to do with safety than politics. If a location is a no-fly zone (also known as an …

In one of the wildest aviation experiments ever attempted, researchers intentionally crashed a Boeing 727 in the Mexican desert to find out which seats gave passengers the best chance of …

You’ve just disembarked your plane and as you’re on the jetway, your teen thinks that they left their iPad in the seat pocket in front of them. Or you check …

If you’ve ever sat on the left side of the plane, you’ve probably seen them. A man or woman wearing a brightly colored vest and ear protectors, holding daylight-fluorescent wands, …

If you have a window seat on a plane, you may notice a tiny hole down towards the bottom. You can’t feel it if you try to touch it, and …

When the airline industry makes a change, it can be something that rocks the travel world. Cases in point: when TSA PreCheck first came on the scene, the introduction of …

Just like the seat belt on a car, seat belts on a plane are provided to keep you in your seat during unexpected movement. They’re not optional, and if a …