“Wherever there is number, there is beauty,” wrote the Byzantine philospher Proclus Diadochus in the 5th century, unaware how very wrong he was. According to the average plane-riding American, mathematics is now nothing but the Satanical scripture of olive-skinned terrorists.
Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane early Tuesday morning after apparently giving the pilots 10 warnings “in the space of five minutes” that they were flying over Turkish airspace—a charge Vladmir Putin has vehemently denied.
Russia on Tuesday joined France in bombing ISIS targets in Syria after confirming for the first time that a jet crash over the Sinai province earlier this month was caused by a bomb.
“The ultimate question is ‘could a dog fly a plane?’ so we have undertaken some training using an aircraft simulator.” What hath God wrought!
A Russian passenger plane crashed early on Saturday morning in the Sinai Peninsula, reportedly killing every person aboard the flight.
An unnamed Michigan Tech student who’s been giving interviews under the alias “Mark” got blackout drunk Friday night and stumbled home to his roommate. This would hardly be news—Mark puts his pants on one leg at a time and drinks to sloppy excess just like the rest of us—but when Mark puts his pants on and drinks to…
Take one look at the gif above and tell me that seeing a turtle scuttling around wouldn’t improve the experience of being cattle-herded through one of the circles of hell that is a U.S. airport. The answer should be clear to you (it is, “Yes, that would improve my travel experience greatly”), but just in case you’re…
A military spokesperson says an F16 fighter jet collided midair with a small Cessna Tuesday morning, exploding into a large fireball over Charleston, South Carolina.
A New Hampshire-bound Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to the terminal Thursday at Chicago’s Midway Airport before takeoff to remove a woman “poking her seatmate with a pen to stop him from snoring.”
After less than 10 minutes in the air, an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday when a napping baggage handler woke up in the plane's cargo hold and began banging and screaming.
A Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps Tuesday, the French civil aviation authority has confirmed. The Dusseldorf-bound plane, an Airbus 320, was carrying 144 passengers, four crew members, and two pilots. French President François Hollande told reporters that "there might not be any survivors."
A passenger jet landing at London's Heathrow airport had an extremely dangerous near-miss with a drone, investigators say.
Passengers were evacuated from an American Airlines flight at New York's JFK airport Sunday morning as police investigate a bomb threat onboard.
A flight from from Siberia's Igarka airport to Krasnoyarsk, the regional capital, was delayed due to temperatures of minus 52 Celsius. The plane was literally frozen on the runway. But the 70 passengers on board, who had already waited one day for their flight, refused to be grounded so easily: They got out and pushed.
Authorities say an Air Canada passenger is "lucky to be alive" after a propeller broke off the flight and slammed through her airplane window, leaving her with a head injury.
A military charter plane carrying approximately 100 Americans unexpectedly landed in Iran today on its way to Dubai, the Washington Post reports.
The latest skirmish in the great legroom wars of 2014 took place on a flight from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida, Monday, as the third commercial flight in just one week was diverted after passengers argued over a reclining seat.
According to the BBC, nine-year-old Oceana Irizarry has died from injuries after being hit by a plane while walking on a Florida beach on Sunday. Her dad Ommy, an Army sergeant who was walking with her, died at the scene.
An Air Algerie plane flying from Burkina Faso to Algeria disappeared from radar last night with 110 passengers and six crew members on board. The plane was likely flying over Mali when it went missing.
A Marine jet slammed into a Southern California home Wednesday, ultimately destroying three houses in the fiery crash. Amazingly, no one was seriously injured.
