When Everything Goes Wrong in Seconds Few sights are more sobering than an aircraft skidding across the flight deck of a ...

If you've ever seen a movie like "Top Gun," where fighter jets take off and land on an aircraft carrier, you likely noticed all the personnel on the flight deck directing things. They often make large ...

Aircraft carriers are capable of launching and recovering jets in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. But the one thing that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to outsiders: why ...

Following the hijacking of four US passenger planes by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration established new standards for flight deck safety. Airline group ...