At touchdown, each tire sheds roughly one and a half pounds of rubber on the runway, multiplied by the number of tires on the aircraft. This means that on a typical Airbus A320 with six tires ...

The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport was scheduled to reopen at 5 p.m. Friday night after a plane crash and fire closed the runway for nearly 8 hours. The announcement came in a news ...

Experts warn that airplane water may not be safe -- even for washing one's hands after using an onboard bathroom. Yurii Zushchyk - stock.adobe.com Experts poo-poo the airplane loo. Flying might ...

Southwest Airlines has announced that it will be adding a cockpit-alert safety tool to almost all of its 800 aircraft. The Honeywell-designed “SmartRunway” and “SmartLanding” software warn pilots with ...

The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport was scheduled to reopen at 5 p.m. Friday night after a plane crash and fire closed the runway for ... Two people escaped an airplane crash and fire ...

The Australian National Maritime Museum confirmed that the remains of a shipwreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, that they had been trying to identify since 1999, match that of Cook’s lost ship, ...

Kevin Spacey, who bemoaned his career struggles last week while accepting an honor at Cannes, evoked a classic Johnny line from “Airplane ... briefly unplugs the runway lights as the ill ...

The airplane collided with obstacles northeast of the runway when the left wing struck a light pole located 2,760 feet beyond the end of the runway," the National Transportation Safety Board ...

The Air India plane crash this week was one of India’s worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several ...

Dear Miss Manners: I was on a flight and sitting in the aisle seat. The middle seat and window seat were occupied by strangers. The plane had landed, and people were standing in the aisle waiting ...