YUMA, Ariz. – A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to California made an emergency landing at a Yuma military base Friday after a sudden drop in cabin pressure, federal officials said. The ...

A left door plug that expelled from an Alaska Airlines flight had disengaged from the fuselage, "allowing it to blow out," the National Transportation Safety Board said late Monday, offering further ...

Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive ...

The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory's Airworthiness Certification and Evaluation Division is the U.S. Army's center of excellence for providing a joint test, evaluation, and certification ...

Washington, DC--Water makes up more than 70 percent of our planet and up to 60 percent of our bodies. Water is so common that we take it for granted. Yet water also has very strange properties ...

GlobalNavSource, a Florida company that does certification and testing of the iPad for aviation use, has reported that the latest iteration of the tablet computer, which Apple is just calling the iPad ...

Rapid decompression in a business jet at cruising altitude — a possible cause of the crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart — is extremely rare, but so catastrophic that a pilot has only seconds to ...

Something that all regular fliers will be familiar with in the pre-flight safety announcement is what to do with the oxygen masks. "To start the flow of oxygen pull the mask gently towards you." ...

Without question, the rapid decompression of the Qantas Boeing 747 that landed in Manila on July 25 was bizarre. Fortunately, large gashes do not often appear in passenger jets. When they do, they ...

PHOENIXPHOENIX — A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to California was diverted Friday to a military base in Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane, federal officials said. Ian Gregor, a ...

Water is so common that we take it for granted. Yet water also has very strange properties compared to most other liquids. In addition to ordinary water and water vapor, or steam, there are at least ...