The TSA wastes a lot of time and money on an inefficient fight against the wrong enemy
By Patrick Smith Aug 28, 2009
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A look back at some of the worst airline-related terrorism of the '70s, '80s and '90s
By Patrick Smith
August 28, 2009
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Where are all the artistic tributes to air disasters? Plus: Your in-flight cellphone questions answered.
By Patrick Smith
December 24, 2004
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What are the 10 worst airline crashes of all time?
By Patrick Smith
September 6, 2002
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Who is to blame when a 22-year-old 747 falls from the sky?
By P. Smith
May 30, 2002
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How did a suicidal passenger get the door of a pressurized plane open? Plus: Can't any pilot fly most planes? And: The autopilot was on during landing?
By Patrick Smith
May 1, 2009
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A look back at the catastrophic chain of events that caused history's deadliest plane crash 30 years ago.
By Patrick Smith
April 6, 2007
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By popular demand: The full, unexpurgated story of what happens when dry ice is mixed with blue toilet acid at 33,000 feet.
By Patrick Smith
October 3, 2002
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Twenty-five years ago, the greatest disaster in airline history killed 538 people, in part because of a radio glitch that still hasn't been fixed.
By P. Smith
March 28, 2002
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Investigators are suggesting that Flight 587 may have become fatally entwined in the jet wake of another plane. Stranger things have happened.
By P. Smith
November 16, 2001
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With terrorist threats to the left and air disasters to the right, why would anyone pack up two kids to fly to New York for Thanksgiving?
By Andrew Leonard
November 13, 2001
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The Concorde's fatal crash over Paris could mark the end of supersonic travel.
By Diane Seo
July 26, 2000
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A lawsuit claims the Alaska Air pilots should have landed instead of trying to figure out what was wrong -- but the doomed men did the right thing.
By Phaedra Hise
February 18, 2000
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Pilots and mechanics admit privately that sometimes whether a part -- or a plane -- needs work is a matter of opinion and negotiation.
By Phaedra Hise
February 3, 2000
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How accurate are airline crash investigations if the people conducting them have a financial stake in the outcome?
By Michael Alvear
December 6, 1999
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U.S., Egyptian officials try to stop the finger-pointing about the Flight 990 crash.
By Fiona Morgan
November 19, 1999
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Inside the strange world of the NTSB.
By Phaedra Hise
November 18, 1999
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Those who fly planes want to know why the autopilot was
disconnected, the engines were shut down and nobody contacted
air-traffic controllers.
By Phaedra Hise
November 16, 1999
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As Egyptians protest the move toward a criminal probe, reports emerge that a crew member said a prayer and plunged the plane into the ocean.
By Alicia Montgomery, Fiona Morgan and Daryl Lindsey
November 16, 1999
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Attorneys register EgyptAir domain names, seeking to comfort families, not attract clients.
By Anthony York
November 16, 1999
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Those who fly planes want to know why the autopilot was disconnected, the engines were shut down and nobody contacted air-traffic controllers.
By Phaedra Hise
November 15, 1999
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The National Transportation Safety Board is waiting on a final analysis of the cockpit voice recorder of Flight 990 before turning over the investigation to the FBI.
By Fiona Morgan
November 15, 1999
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