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Veteran Air Canada Dreamliner captain Doug Morris, who recently wrote This Is Your Captain Speaking, explained why pilots can't avoid areas of turbulence even when they're know they're near

As Lufthansa's flight 469 from Austin, Texas, bound for Frankfurt, Germany, was being diverted to Washington Dulles Airport, crew reportedly told passengers to delete any photos and videos

Two small planes collided mid-air and plunged into Lake Hartridge in Winter Haven, Florida, US, on Tuesday. One person was confirmed dead, however, it is not known yet how many people were on board the planes

Passengers aboard Southwest Airlines flight 3094 from Baltimore, Maryland, bound for Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina said they were left for four hours at Myrtle Beach, US

Southwest Airlines flight 3923 departed from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but turned back after it was struck by a bird and one of the engines caught fire

Aryan Vohra, a 21-year-old student in the US, was arrested after the American Airlines flight AA 292 arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport

Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky and Douglas Robertson, who operated KanRus Trading Company, were arrested for allegedly circumventing US export laws to sell sophisticated avionics equipment to Russian companies

A man flying to Brisbane was stopped by security when officials mistook the wand from his Slytherin costume for a weapon, to the amusement of Harry Potter fans on social media

Anaïs Monique is a former veteran flight attendant who has dealt with many seat-swapping requests during her time in the skies, and has explained when she was most likely to make them happen

Jay Roberts, who has worked as senior cabin crew for Emirates, asked flight attendants which parts of the job they found the hardest on the Fly Guy's Cabin Crew Lounge network

The Transportation Security Administration found thousands of firearms in 2022, with some stashed in items from raw chicken and jars of peanut butter, to a PlayStation and an arm sling

Spain's Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona-El Prat will see new hand luggage rules come into force by the end of 2023, followed by Palma de Mallorca and Malaga-Costa del Sol

The incredible near-miss on Qatar Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner saw the aircraft come within moments of crashing into the sea before a hero pilot saved hundreds of lives

Michael Joseph Morris, who was travelling with his wife, suddenly collapsed in the international arrivals toilet while waiting for his luggage to be returned after flying from Heathrow to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg

The Boeing 767-306ER was scheduled to fly from Phuket, Thailand to Russia, carrying 309 passengers including families of men hiding from Putin's mobilisation decree

Rather than flying the planned 9,000 miles to Dubai, an Emirates flight taking off from Auckland spent 13 hours in the sky before touching back down on the tarmac it had set off from

Negotiations are said to be underway to introduce passenger flights from the currently abandoned Manston Airports' schedule, with the first to begin flying from 2028

The youngster's screams had turned the four-and-a-half hour flight from Chengdu to Jilin, China into a nightmare as not even his parents could calm him - but a heroic flight attendant soothed the little one by taking him on a tour of the plane

Plans are in place to re-open Plymouth's mothballed airport as leader Richard Bingley aims to start a “public/private” partnership, with cross-party backing for a new airport on the disused site

A number of countries have all of their airlines totally banned from European airspace due being considered unsafe by the EU Air Safety Committee, including those from Afghanistan, Liberia and Sudan

Sarah Goodwin, a flight attendant and TikToker who works for Virgin Australia, has said one particularly drink can cause bad effects on an airplane, including headaches and insomnia

Having a hole anywhere on a plane seems like a terrible idea, so the question of why on earth would be there a tiny gap in the windows seems like a fairly valid one

Nepal plane crash victim Elena Banduro, 33, from Moscow, had posted excitedly on her social media account about her upcoming trip with a message reading: "Go to Nepal"

Nepal has eight of the world's tallest mountains within its borders and has been branded one of the most-difficult places in the world to fly due to its "hostile topography"

Abhinav Prakash, an airline worker from Delhi, helped out his two pals by calling in a bomb call to India's budget airline SpiceJet so two women they met on a road trip wouldn't be able to leave