Below, we'll share 5 interesting reasons why this rule is followed and how it helps keep air travel safe and efficient.

Like so many other airplane procedures, dimming the cabin lights during takeoff and landing is primarily done for safety reasons, which a pilot and a flight attendant outline below. If you think you ...

For nervous travelers, an aircraft's landing marks one of the flight's most harrowing moments. For the pilot and crew, it marks the completion of yet another successful journey 30,000 feet in the air.

We’ve all been there: As you’re approaching your destination, you feel the plane begin its descent. You might even spot a landmark or two nearby. Then, just when it looks like the plane is about to ...

Planes may be common vessels for travel, but they're still mysterious to many people. One thing that can confuse some is the reason why aircraft dim their lights before takeoffs and during landings.

Spotting an aircraft carrier is easy thanks to its island superstructure, but why is it almost always on the right side? The answer lies in aviation physics.

Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of St. Martin is known less for its sugary sands and more for the aircraft that skim overhead. Today, tourists come to spend a day on the beach for sun, sand and ...

Three planes coming into Reagan National Airport were required to alter their landing plans about 11 a.m. Sunday when a police helicopter took on an urgent mission in the same airspace at about the ...

A 95°F Los Angeles is much more palatable at 4,500 feet—a 20-minute flight in a sleek new Cirrus piston engine four-seater, from the Burbank to Camarillo airports, above a smog-laden urban sprawl that ...

Horizon Air canceled more flights out of Santa Rosa today after 19 planes were taken out of service for inspections Wednesday following two landing gear failures by similar planes in Europe. Horizon ...

Two United Airlines jets collided on the tarmac at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Friday — but, thankfully, no one ...