Every time you fly, you sit through the same safety demonstration, where flight attendants explain how to put an oxygen mask over your face and use your seat cushion as a flotation device. They also ...

View of an emergency exit in a plane. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are serious consequences for people who try. The most important thing in the ...

A spate of recent incidents in which domestic passengers have tried to open emergency exit doors has caused significant disruptions and safety risks for domestic airlines. The latest incident occurred ...

It’s not something that happens often on a flight, so for it to happen twice, on two separate occasions, left me in complete shock. I was recently on an SA Airlink flight from Johannesburg to Cape ...

A regional jet made an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday evening after a passenger tried to open an emergency exit door and got into an altercation with a flight attendant. Delta ...

BOSTON - A passenger on a JetBlue flight opened an emergency exit door and deployed the slide while the plane was taxiing at Logan Airport in Boston Tuesday night, the FAA said. Witnesses said the man ...

Australian police were called to meet a plane arriving in Sydney from Malaysia. A 46-year-old man had tried to open two emergency exits during a flight, police said. He has been charged with ...

We asked pilots what would happen if someone tried to open an airplane’s door mid-flight—here’s what they said. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are ...