When a commercial jet taxis down a runway, some passengers have to breathe deeply, their fingers clutching their arm rests, while others lean back and close their eyes, reveling in the sensations. How ...

In December 2000 a tower controller in southern Florida received a single radio transmission: “Mayday mayday mayday Pitts 260DB in an unrecoverable flat spin at 3,500 feet.” The airplane crashed in ...

A witness told the National Transportation Safety Board a plane was doing aerobatics moments before it crashed near Fairmont last week. Pilot Randy Harris, 55 of Owasso and his passenger, 1st Lt. Dale ...

The pilot who died in a small plane crash Sept. 23 was performing an inverted flat spin before his plane crashed into the Cumberland River in Cheatham County, according to the National Safety and ...

Roll a 180, jam your foot on the right rudder pedal, shove your stick to the upper right, and you’ll spin all the way down. Flipped over and spinning: For most pilots, it’s their worst nightmare. Not ...