Virginia-based aviation company Electra says it managed to get some 2,200 orders for its short-, low-speed take off aircraft, ...

Flying commercially means following a lot of safety procedures, but why do flight attendants have you open a plane's window ...

The Southwest jet appears to have mistakenly accelerated on a taxiway that runs parallel to Runway 17R, reaching about 70 ...

In Orlando, a Southwest plane began its takeoff roll on the taxiway instead of the runway. It comes as Canadian investigators ...

Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes ...

Investigators say a high-speed descent led to a landing gear collapse that caused a Delta Air Lines plane to flip upside down ...

A landing gear support broke as a Delta Air Lines regional jet was landing before it flipped upside down, leaving passengers ...

Electra's aircraft looks conventional enough, but it generates ludicrous amounts of lift, to take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using almost no runway. With US$9 billion in pre-orders, it's ...

Two engine fires made news in recent weeks: a fire on a United Airlines flight Feb. 2 as it was preparing to take off from Houston and a March 1 fire on a FedEx cargo plane that made an emergency ...

An expert explains that weird "barking dog sound" before a plane takes off, and gives us one less thing to worry about the ...

You’ll be asked to evacuate the plane immediately through emergency exits. “If the cabin lights were to be fully bright, you ...