Every time you fly, you sit through the same safety demonstration, where flight attendants explain how to put an oxygen mask over your face and use your seat cushion as a flotation device. They also ...

View of an emergency exit in a plane. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are serious consequences for people who try. The most important thing in the ...

It’s not something that happens often on a flight, so for it to happen twice, on two separate occasions, left me in complete shock. I was recently on an SA Airlink flight from Johannesburg to Cape ...

We asked pilots what would happen if someone tried to open an airplane’s door mid-flight—here’s what they said. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are ...