Flying

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  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Werner Herzog's explosive POW drama -- a love letter to America? Plus: Bad parents, interesting women.
  • Ask the Pilot

    What caused the Kenya Airlines 737 to nose-dive just after takeoff, killing all aboard? We still don't know -- and neither does the press.
  • Would-be pilots grounded by wives!

    The private aviation industry is foundering, and it's all women's fault.
  • Ask the pilot

    No ticket? No problem. Hitching a ride in West Africa, the world's most "dangerous" place to fly.
  • Ask the pilot

    Anatomy of a delay: It's payback time as the pilot endures a 24-hour snowstorm saga.
  • 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

    Note to self: Never, ever underestimate the public's hatred for the airlines!
  • 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!
  • Back in the saddle

    These days, because I am an airline pilot, people want to know if I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I would be nervous flying with a pilot who wasn't.
  • Common cattle

    Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks.
  • JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes

    The final report on Kennedy's crash reveals a series of decisions that led him on a spiral crash course one year ago.
  • Flying the stinky skies

    Can a passenger be thrown off a plane for offensive body odor?
  • Letters to the editor

    Readers welcome Lynda Barry. Plus: Defending ourselves against air rage; are Elian's relatives unfit guardians?
  • Kate Millett finds a new house

    After five years in the wilderness, "Sexual Politics" returns to print.
  • Drunken airline pilot detained before flying plane

    Amsterdam authorities find captain's blood-alcohol level four times the legal driving limit.
  • Letters from the skies

    Pilots share their stories of vertigo, and tell us what we can learn from JFK Jr.'s tragic judgment.
  • Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist

    The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not.
  • Fly girl

    Mid-air diaper changes and occasional airsickness aside, flying with my toddler at the controls brings back the thrill I felt when my dad taught me to fly.
  • Tale of a flight from hell

    Dawn MacKeen's tale of a New York-Los Angeles flight where just about anything that could go wrong did.
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