P. Smith

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  • Ask the pilot

    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

  • Up, locked, and loaded

    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

  • Ask the pilot

    Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small?
    By Patrick Smith June 28, 2002

  • Airplanes don't get no respect

    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

  • Crash culture

    Who is to blame when a 22-year-old 747 falls from the sky?
    By P. Smith May 30, 2002

  • 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.
    By P. Smith April 11, 2002

  • Air travel's communications killer

    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

  • How safe is your airplane?

    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

  • Concorde

    Not even a hideous crash -- and the worst single event in the history of the airline business -- could permanently ground the most sensual and timelessly attractive of airplanes. And by the way, you don't say "the" Concorde.
    By Patrick Smith February 4, 2002

  • The inherent danger of flying

    Shoe bombs and suicidal 15-year-olds are heightening fears about airline security. But aside from creating more chaos at airports, what can we do?
    By P. Smith January 15, 2002

  • Turbulence can kill

    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

  • In the first plane to land after Flight 587

    We came down in view of two crash sites and surrounded by thousands of ghosts.
    By P. Smith November 14, 2001

  • Search for bombs, not nail clippers

    A commercial pilot says that security checks are laughably misdirected
    By P. Smith October 30, 2001

  • Newsreal: America's Asian "Berlin Wall" has crumbled

    Thanks largely to American Cold War politics, Asia has been fed a steady diet of undemocratic regimes and corrupt leaders. No wonder the current economic turmoil has been such a shock to their systems.
    By Jonathan Broder December 1, 1997
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