As the pundits have it, our airlines are running out of pilots. But is this true?
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.
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.
Sometimes when I hear the whine of jet engines, I think of the beach.
Every so often you end a flight with one more “soul” than you started with.
Can a reborn jetliner again change the world — or look good trying?
All those gadgets, chargers, adapters and cords are supposed to make my life easier. I’m not so sure.
As the public understands it, Sully saved 155 lives through nerves of steel and superhuman flying skills. The truth isn’t quite so romantic.
