Flight attendants may require window shades to be up during takeoff and landing for passenger safety. Open windows let passengers and crew quickly see hazards outside and help first responders assess ...

While it might seem like an annoying ask, keeping the window shades open can actually be a helpful tool in dangerous situations Getty Leaving the window shade open on a plane as a passenger during ...

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 lost a radio link with flight staff, prompting them to bang on the locked cockpit door and raising fears that someone was ...

Federal agents and local police stormed the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight that had landed just moments earlier and arrested the co-pilot on the runway of the San Francisco International Airport.