As the pundits have it, our airlines are running out of pilots. But is this true?
As the public understands it, Sully saved 155 lives through nerves of steel and superhuman flying skills. The truth isn’t quite so romantic.
All those gadgets, chargers, adapters and cords are supposed to make my life easier. I’m not so sure.
Every so often you end a flight with one more “soul” than you started with.
Sometimes when I hear the whine of jet engines, I think of the beach.
Can a reborn jetliner again change the world — or look good trying?
Like most other aviation calamities, the 583 people killed in 1977 when a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife resulted not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a stroke or two of really bad luck.
A routine flight is plunged into weirdness after the crew smells smoke. How to deal with a possible emergency — not to mention a plane full of obsessed Japanese tourists.
It’s the pilot’s job to worry about crashing. It’s in their best interest, and yours too.
