A United Airlines flight bound for Denver was forced to return to Dulles International Airport Monday night after a passenger sprinting to the plane's cockpit allegedly yelling about jihad was subdued by a group of passengers.
On a flight from Nicaragua to Miami Sunday, a woman decided to test American Airlines' "no smoking" rule by lighting up on the plane. Even though everyone had seen her (and some of her fellow passengers were taking video), she tried to pin it on the guy sitting next to her. As in-flight annoyances go, smoking in an…
The latest entry in the Transportation Security Authority's Instagram catalog of heavy artillery: the five-inch, eight-spiked death blade above, which some hapless traveler tried to bring onto a flight from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. But worry not: it was only his trusty spinning axe, straight out…
In terrifying footage caught on a skydiver's helmet camera, Christopher Jones can be seen having a seizure mid-air, his convulsing body tumbling to the ground until his partner is able to trigger his parachute.
A group of flight attendants say United fired them for refusing to fly on a Hong Kong-bound 747 that had the words "BYE BYE" and a frowning face mysteriously written in oil on the fuselage.
A group of passengers traveling from Abu Dhabi to San Francisco said they were trapped inside an airplane more than a day when the airport was shut down by fog this weekend.
Perhaps you traveled by air this holiday season, and perhaps you wouldn't use the word "exemplary" to describe your customer service. Perhaps the airline representative took a tone with you over the phone, and perhaps you said some things you didn't mean in return. Congrats! You're in good company.
Jean Mamakos is suing United Airlines after she claims flight attendants on her cross-country flight overreacted when she tried to move to an unoccupied emergency row seat. Police reportedly hauled her off the plane and Mamakos spent three nights in a Seattle jail.
The War on Christmas moved to a new battleground this week—a domestic American Airlines flight, where passengers and flight attendants alike alighted with Christmas cheer to overcome a dark force muddling its way down the aisle.
A passenger jet landing at London's Heathrow airport had an extremely dangerous near-miss with a drone, investigators say.
A Philadelphia-bound U.S. Airways flight had to make an emergency landing in Rome when passengers and crew members began vomiting all over the plane in a scene straight out of your worst nightmare.
A plane full of people headed to LA got a free trip to Nebraska thanks to a passenger who wouldn't stop masturbating on a Virgin America flight, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
Early this morning, a small cargo plane crashed into a Chicago house shortly after taking off from Midway Airport. According to the the city's fire department chief, the impact missed the sleeping elderly couple living there by just eight inches.
A Delta Airlines passenger says he was sitting in his seat, waiting to take off from LAX last week when an airline employee told him his six-year-old rescue dog had disappeared.
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.
An American Airlines flight from LAX to London was delayed for 17 hours after a passenger noticed an available WiFi network named "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" and alerted the plane's crew.
After a summer full of flight delays and disturbances due to pugnacious passengers, it's almost a relief that today's big air travel story involves a box of live crabs instead.
Flying these days can be a very dicey affair—you never know who you're going to get stuck with on a long flight and the person seated in front of you could end up being anyone—a no-good recliner, or worse, a very, very drunk lady.
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.
Two passengers who had allegedly consumed a "significant quantity" of alcohol caused a Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cuba to return to the airport under a military escort after they smoked in the bathroom, tripped a fire alarm, got into a fight, and made a "threat against the aircraft."
