In the wake of the March 2015 Germanwings airline crash that apparently occurred when the co-pilot barricaded himself in the cockpit and deliberately sent the plane into a fatal dive into the French ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was the last American-built aircraft to feature an analog cockpit. The aircraft entered ...

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a packed 2023 flight after taking psychedelic mushrooms forced crews into tense moments captured on dramatic cockpit audio. Joseph ...

Modern cockpit doors have safety systems to keep out intruders. They can be opened from the cabin - to help pilots in an emergency. But control is from within. And that has its own dangers. Virtually ...

Investigators will never know exactly what the Alaska Airlines pilots were saying last week in the chaotic, loud first moments after a door plug blew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9, leaving a hole in the side ...

On Christmas Day in 1996, Kelly Jeffries was invited to ride in the jump seat of a De Havilland Dash 8. This was, by all means, a fairly standard repositioning hop through Florida for the aircraft.

BAE Systems is seeking to make the jet fighter cockpit of tomorrow a much simpler place by replacing conventional instruments and controls with a virtual reality system. This "wearable cockpit" would ...

The F-22 Raptor is built by Lockheed Martin and is one of the most advanced fighter jets on the planet. However, it's easy to forget that this plane is nearly 30 years old with the first F-22 Raptor ...