Airplanes

Air France crash Some stories just won't fly

I'd love to move on from the Air France crash, but the media insist on getting things wrong again
  • Why the Air France plane crashed

    Flight 447 shouldn't have gone down, but it did. Were normally non-dangerous phenomena the culprits?
  • Ask the pilot

    Do pilots have a "romper room"? Do they fly the same routes over and over? Those questions and more
  • "Do not flush while seated on toilet"

    It would be easy to miss those seven simple words next to the flush button in the airliner bathroom. Pay attention, or ruin your life!
  • Ask the pilot

    The smell of smoke in the cockpit, and it's back to Boston for a planeload of fixated Japanese tourists.
  • Ask the Pilot

    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?
  • Ask the pilot

    The Buffalo crash revisited. Plus: Landing in the water, idolizing Sully and selling books.
  • Ask the pilot

    Did a stupid, inexplicable mistake cause the crash near Buffalo, N.Y.? Plus: The weird hell of working for a regional airline.
  • Ask the pilot

    Planes crash. The media descends. But why can't reporters get their facts straight? Plus: Kudos to an outstanding exception.
  • Ask the pilot

    Malcolm Gladwell claims cultural issues can play a big role in plane crashes. The pilot begs to differ.
  • Ask Pablo

    I'm planning my summer vacation. Is it more ecological to fly or drive?
  • Ask the pilot

    When a routine flight is plunged into weirdness after the crew smells smoke, how to deal with a possible emergency -- and a plane full of foreign tourists.
  • Remember when it was fun to fly?

    As we inched through the airport security line, I seemed to be the only one grinding my teeth. Would anyone have defended me if I'd spoken up to the shirts?
  • Ask the pilot

    From cockpit check to walkaround to stocking the galley: The Zen of preparing the "Monster" to fly.
  • Ask the pilot

    If I've flown into the Port-au-Prince airport, does that mean I've been to Haiti? What, exactly, constitutes a trip to another country?
  • Southwest: Cover up! Playboy: Take it off!

    Kyla Ebbert, famously told to cover herself on an airplane, poses for Playboy.
  • Ask the pilot

    Oversized and overhyped, the world's biggest plane is here. Is the Airbus A380 the "most hideous airliner ever conceived"?
  • Ask the pilot

    The worst thing about hotel rooms? It's not the ugly carpeting. Plus: Why don't planes carry parachutes for passengers?
  • Ask the pilot

    Airport congestion and flight delays are making travelers insane. A look at what will and won't solve the problem.
  • Ask the Pilot

    What have we come to when foreign airlines tout around-the-world travel that avoids the U.S.? Plus: Make your own airline route maps. And: Wizz Air?
  • Ask the pilot

    As delays hit record levels, a closer look at how airline scheduling practices are killing travel.
  • Ask the Pilot

    What happens when you have more -- but smaller -- planes, flying to more cities, more often? Can you say "gridlock"?
  • Ask the pilot

    From giant pillows and computer-crushing seats to sudoku mania and quartz porcupines: Musings on the state of air travel.
  • Ask the pilot

    Remember the sense of awe you used to feel on an airplane ride? Where did it go? Plus: The lowdown on that "filthy" and "germ-laden" cabin air.
  • Ask the pilot

    How safe are those old Russian jets Cubana flies? Why don't people clap on landing anymore? Plus: Stowaways, oxygen deprivation and more!
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