The "erratic" passenger has since been banned from flying with Alaska Airlines after allegedly trying to open an aircraft's doors on Dec. 10 ...

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 ...

The NTSB said in its preliminary report that the pilot had made a “series of modifications” to the plane doors, which affected its “indicator system” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

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 ...

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 ...

A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight has been charged in federal court after authorities reported he repeatedly tried to open a cabin door midflight.

Emergency personnel respond to a commercial building where a small plane crashed on Jan. 2, 2025, in Fullerton, Calif. The NTSB said in its preliminary report, made public on Wednesday, Jan. 29, that ...

A preliminary report from the NTSB found that a small plane which crashed into a warehouse near Fullerton, Calif., on Jan. 2, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others, appeared to have ...