A Southwest Airlines flight is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration after it flew at an abnormally low altitude over Oklahoma. Flight 4069 was flying over Yukon, Okla. when it ...

Commercial airliners typically cruise between 33,000 and 39,000 feet, primarily to achieve greater fuel efficiency. Private jets, on the other hand, tend to fly even higher, between 39,000 and 45,000 ...

Flying remains the safest mode of transportation in the U.S., and it’s not even close based on data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. It’s something I write and talk about all the time as ...

The author's flying career progressed from a used Beechcraft Musketeer to progressively faster and more sophisticated aircraft, culminating in a turbine-powered Piper Cheyenne and later jet aircraft.

CBS 6 obtained flight records showing accused stalker and pilot Michael Arnold's plane flying well below the Federal Aviation Administration's minimum altitude requirements. A viewer, who has ...

Planes are designed to withstand tremendous forces on their components when they’re flying. But there’s more to keeping flying safe than the structural capabilities of airplanes. The decision to delay ...

One of the first things aspiring pilots learn is straight-and-level flight, a technique that involves maintaining control of a plane while staying at the same altitude and flying in one direction. A ...

The controversy highlights the regulatory dilemma China faces as it pushes to develop a low-altitude economy while ensuring ...

Turbulence is an irregular motion of air resulting from obstructions to the airflow or vertical currents. There are three primary causes of turbulence. Convective turbulence is vertical currents of ...

A Vueling flight flew at low altitude for two hours over a fuel issue, The Independent reported. Twitter users said the plane was carrying too much fuel and had to burn it off. It returned to London's ...

Many insects determine their altitude by measuring how quickly the ground is passing beneath them, but __Drosophila__ adopts a separate technique -- it avoids crashing by flying at the same height as ...