What Are Cockpit Jumpseats & Who Can Use Them?
The minimum number of jumpseats allowed on a plane for airline operations is one. Therefore, every plane has at least three ...
What led to this deadly disaster? It started with a casual conversation in the cockpit
In the final minutes before Eastern Flight 212 crashed in Charlotte, the pilots were engaged in small talk that mostly had ...
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Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story
Emerson said he walked into the cabin, drank directly from a coffee pot and took a seat in the flight attendants' jump seat. None of the passengers knew that the man in a pilot's uniform had only ...
Dozens of passengers died on impact. The rest faced another deadly threat: ‘Dante’s Inferno’
Eastern Flight 212 crashed 3.3 miles short of its intended runway in Charlotte on Sept. 11, 1974, plowing through a cornfield ...
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'I made a big mistake': Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut off engines shares story
drank directly from a coffee pot and took a seat in the flight attendants' jump seat. None of the passengers knew that the man in a pilot's uniform had only moments earlier tried to turn off their ...
It should have been an easy flight to Charlotte. But then something went horribly wrong.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 1974, 78 passengers and four crew members departed from Charleston’s airport in a DC-9 airplane ...
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Baltimore cellist treats passengers on Southwest flight to free 35,000-foot concert
It's no secret that travel these days is stressful. Well, it turns out one airline recently made at least one flight a little nicer. It's all thanks to a kind offer by a local Baltimore musician.