Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping the ...

On modern airliners, it is usually an automatic process and the airplane begins to pressurize as soon as it takes off. On most modern jets, the pressurization system gets the airplane’s intended ...

Yesterday, flying from Paris Charles De Gaulle to Rome Fiumicino with an Alitalia A321, watching the ceiling, I suddenly thought about a brief discussion I had with Monica, a friend of mine, who’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A United Airlines passenger claimed that their flight experienced a loss of cabin pressure during a cross-country flight, causing ...

Last week’s engine failure involving a Qantas A380 wasn’t the only overhyped airplane story of late. A few days earlier we were hearing about the American Airlines flight that made an emergency ...

Delta Flight 1660 returned to Atlanta due to a cabin pressurization issue. The Boeing 737-900ER landed safely without deploying oxygen masks. The flight carried 177 passengers, two pilots, and four ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The crew of a recent American Airlines ...

TAMPA, Fla. (FOX NEWS) - A Delta Air Lines flight headed for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was diverted on Wednesday due to a “cabin pressurization irregularity” that reportedly forced pilots to make a quick ...

THE RECENT incident in which an air marshal shot and killed an airplane passenger raises the question of what would happen if a bullet smashed through the wall of an airborne plane, causing a sudden ...

A Delta flight returned to Salt Lake City after cabin pressure issues cause passenger discomfort and medical concerns. Ten passengers were evaluated for treatment, with medical personnel meeting them ...