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 ...

Aviation experts are questioning why a Black Hawk helicopter may have been flying above its permitted altitude before its collision with a passenger plane near Reagan National Airport. Publicly ...

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 ...

What is being characterized as a small balloon was intercepted by fighter aircraft Friday morning over Utah at an altitude of 43,000 to 45,000 feet and is being allowed to continue to fly above the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...