PEOPLE content strategist Sam Silverman used to have bad flight anxiety until she let go and let her pilot best friend take the wheel. See what she learned.

On my recent flight, I kept getting startled by the different noises the plane was making. As a frequent Boeing passenger, I thought it was due to the fact that I was in an Airbus this time.

Since the flight that crash landed in Toronto on Monday originated in the U.S., one of my colleagues wanted to know how much of a part the Federal Aviation Administration and the rest of the U.S ...

"My least favorite thing that I hear from passengers, though, is, ‘Thank you for a safe flight,’ because I think that is such a given. That's my goal," one pilot said.