Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Newly released cockpit audio and dashcam video help detail what happened during an in-flight emergency, when a former Alaska Airlines pilot tried to shut down the engines of a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Newly released cockpit audio and dashcam video help detail what happened during an in-flight emergency, when a former Alaska Airlines pilot tried to shut down the engines of a ...

"Star Wars" is pretty much World War II in space. Not just because of the overarching plot involving an evil empire and dogfights between airplanes/spacecraft, but because so much of the first movie — ...

The panic began when a pilot reportedly heard knocking on the cockpit door and was unable to contact his crew. Thinking someone was attempting to break into the cockpit, he chose to make an emergency ...

A Los Angeles-bound flight made an emergency landing after a pilot thought there was a break-in attempt in the cockpit The miscommunication was due to an “inter-phone system” failure as a flight ...

A Los Angeles-bound flight made an emergency landing Monday after its pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit when its flight attendants banged on the locked door because ...

An American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing Monday night in Nebraska, after the pilots could not reach the flight attendants and heard someone outside the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (KABC) -- A SkyWest flight bound for Los Angeles International Airport turned around in the air soon after takeoff Monday and returned to a Nebraska airport after the plane's interphone ...

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire ...