Airline close calls have been happening multiple times per week, report finds

Tech Insider
: A United Airlines lands as the other planes are taxiing to take-off at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on September 15, 2022.
Close-call incidents are often the result of human error, such as mistakes made by air traffic controllers and pilots, a New York Times investigation found.

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Southwest passenger's video shows plane's engine spitting out flames mid-flight

Tech Insider
The engine of SWA flight #307 started spewing flames mid-flight.
The engine of SWA flight #307 started spewing flames mid-flight.

Ricardo Garcia / BON VOYAGED /TMX

US startup Joby is building an electric aircraft it wants to use to fly people between airports and cities for the price of an Uber — take a look

Tech Insider
JoeBen Bevirt, Joby Aviation
CEO JoeBen Bevirt with the Joby eVTOL prototype.

Reuters

A small plane made a dramatic emergency landing on a busy British road at rush hour — here's why pilots train to land on highways

Tech Insider : Travel
The plane involved in the incident.
null

National Highways

You probably think people are getting ruder and less nice than they were in the past. You're also probably wrong.

Tech Insider
airport delays
Travelers line up to check in for United Airlines flights at San Francisco International Airport on July 01, 2022 in San Francisco, California.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says she 'lived on a lot of planes' as she flew across the country to try to woo advertisers back to the platform

Tech Insider
Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino sit on a stage.
Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino.

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

A JetBlue plane nearly collided with a charter jet on a runway, and a photo from the cockpit shows just how close the encounter was

Tech Insider
Screen capture from jump-seat occupant’s video recording showing Lear 60 crossing runway centerline (left), and Flight tracks of both JetBlue (JBU206) and Hop-a-Jet (HPJ280) with yellow circle indicating incursion area (right)
Screen capture from jump-seat occupant’s video recording showing Lear 60 crossing runway centerline (left), and Flight tracks of both JetBlue (JBU206) and Hop-a-Jet (HPJ280) with yellow circle indicating incursion area (right)

How Russia is evading sanctions to keep $10 billion worth of seized Boeing and Airbus planes flying

Tech Insider
Four Russian airliners in a maintenance hangar.
Russia has gone to great lengths to keep its fleet of seized airplanes flying, including "cannibalizing" planes and buying from the black market.

aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The former acting head of the FAA is now overseeing safety at a new electric aircraft company — and it's a good sign for takeoff. Meet Archer's Midnight eVTOL.

Tech Insider : Travel
The author sitting inside Archer's Midnight eVTOL.
Insider's Taylor Rains sits aboard Archer Aviation's upcoming Midnight eVTOL.

Taylor Rains/Insider

Airlines brace for more travel chaos as hundreds of Airbus jets are inspected over engine recall

Tech Insider : Travel
Airbus A320neo.
An Airbus A320neo aircraft.

Regis Duvignau/Reuters

Subscribe to Planes