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Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing?
By Patrick Smith
July 18, 2002
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Should guns be allowed in the cockpit? Possibly, says Salon's aviation expert, but not at the expense of other solutions to air terror.
By Patrick Smith
July 12, 2002
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Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small?
By Patrick Smith
June 28, 2002
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The glamour of the jet age is gone, and that's a shame. It's time to bring back the wonder.
By Patrick Smith
June 21, 2002
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After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft.
By P. Smith
March 8, 2002
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Richard Bizzaro could serve 20 years for disrupting a recent Delta flight. Was he actually acting out the heroic impulses we're supposed to be cultivating?
By Amy Standen
February 20, 2002
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I can't help seeing this Chinese business in sexual terms.
By David Thomson
April 6, 2001
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Taiwanese men hope to enter the Guinness record book by hauling a 747 with their penises.
By Jack Boulware
January 12, 2001
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Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
By Elliott Neal Hester
December 14, 2000
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Finally, the time had come for me to face Big Bertha -- the airborne antichrist.
By Elliott Neal Hester
September 8, 2000
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Wouldn't it be great to have a private jet plane, your own pilot, flight crew and go where you want, whenever you want?
By Promotion
June 15, 2000
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A speeding plane misses his car by 10 feet.
By J.A. Getzlaff
May 12, 2000
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A new report names the Senate majority leader the worst of the corporate sluts. But our slut may be the greatest living American.
By Chris Colin
May 10, 2000
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Virgin Express and Ryanair are giving free flights to people named Ryan.
By J.A. Getzlaff
May 3, 2000
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Since July 1997, over a dozen passengers have attempted to breach cockpit doors during
commercial airline flights. We've been lucky so far.
By Elliott Neal Hester
April 8, 2000
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Flight is forced to detour in Anchorage.
By J.A. Getzlaff
March 7, 2000
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A grateful, if trembling, reader writes: Flight attendants, they're worth their wings.
By Elliott Neal Hester
February 29, 2000
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Trial ongoing in England.
By J.A. Getzlaff
February 4, 2000
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An in-flight emergency totally transforms the behavior of passengers -- and flight attendants.
By Elliott Neal Hester
January 25, 2000
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Too many bags and too few bins make frequent flyers cry foul.
By Elliott Neal Hester
December 22, 1999
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Where can you order an indoor/outdoor
miniature golf course for only $18,999.95? In the mother ship of all catalogs.
By Christine Kenneally
December 21, 1999
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Can you be sure the pilot on the plane you're boarding isn't depressed? Can the airlines be sure?
By Mary Racana
November 18, 1999
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From cucarachas to dachshunds, flight attendants contend with a mind-boggling menagerie of stowaways.
By Elliott Neal Hester
November 16, 1999
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For some flight attendants, three airports and 2,500 miles isn't a major trip -- it's a normal journey to work.
By Elliott Neal Hester
November 2, 1999
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When pilots are stabbed to death and flight attendants are taken to the hospital in ambulances, the skies are out of control.
By Elliott Neal Hester
September 7, 1999
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