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Ask the Pilot Is the Airbus a lemon?

Two Airbus crashes in two months: Should we worry? Plus: Welcome to the Six Continent Club!
  • 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
  • When a pilot dies mid-flight

    Are passengers at risk? Plus: Plenty of flotsam and jetsam, but no real answers in Air France crash
  • The Fiat-ization of the American male

    Can a nation of dudes whose sexual self-image was built on macho Jeeps survive the rise of the Little Mouse?
  • Flight 447's perfect storm

    The media loves the "wrong speed" theory, but a lightning strike and electrical failure are more likely culprits.
  • Why the Air France plane crashed

    Flight 447 shouldn't have gone down, but it did. Were normally non-dangerous phenomena the culprits?
  • Hot for married co-worker

    She says she's loyal to her husband and wants to have babies with him -- do I have a chance with her?
  • Ask the pilot

    Do pilots have a "romper room"? Do they fly the same routes over and over? Those questions and more
  • Ask the pilot

    Do you really think I'd lie to you about cabin air? Plus: The Colgan crash and the problems with regional airlines.
  • Ask the pilot

    From swine flu to malaria, how jetliners can spread disease. Plus: Is the air on planes really as dirty as we think?
  • Obama's "tax scam" crackdown

    The president announces a plan to crack down on overseas tax havens and other multinational corporate tax loopholes. But how hard will he fight for his changes?
  • 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?
  • I got caught stealing money from work

    I was fired and I'm making restitution, but I'm dying of shame.
  • Ask the pilot

    Is pilot fatigue a menace to airline safety?
  • 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

    If you're a pilot, no matter how much skill you have, or how many lives you've heroically saved, the only thing that matters is seniority.
  • Ask the Pilot

    Will the airlines' current financial troubles affect safety? "Sully" Sullenberger thinks so, but I'm not so sure.
  • The death throes of my newspaper

    Before the Rocky Mountain News expired Friday, management asked staffers like me to do some strange things to keep it alive. We kept doing journalism anyway.
  • A New York state of bankruptcy

    Fortunoff is no more, and the suburbs and the outer boroughs mourn.
  • The unnatural death of Mervyn's

    Did this West Coast discount retailer really have to die? (And is it really dead?)
  • The plug is pulled on Circuit City

    The big red-and-white box in the mall parking lot is empty. An electronics giant goes under.
  • Ask the pilot

    What makes a plane stay in the air, anyway? And what happened the night Flight 3407 fell from the sky near Buffalo, N.Y.?
  • Ask the pilot

    Was ice the culprit in last week's deadly plane crash? Or some other unlikely chain of events?
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