Pilots, supposedly, have a saying: Take-off is optional. Landing is mandatory. One way or another, sooner or later, your aircraft—be it a fighter jet, a commercial airliner, a helicopter, or a ...

These global airports challenge even the most experienced pilots with daunting landscapes, unpredictable weather patterns, and design quirks that make you grip your armrest just a little tighter. Here ...

Image Credit: Lance C. Broad - CCA SA 4.0/WikiCommons. Arguably, the two most difficult areas of airplane travel involve actually taking off and landing the plane. Of course, it also doesn’t help when ...

French investigators have underlined the importance of rigorous training for operations at altiports – airports in mountainous terrain – after a Pilatus PC-12 collided with the steep runway slope at ...

Join us for an exhilarating flight to Courchevel, one of Europe’s most extreme airports located in the French Alps. We begin our journey in Buochs, Switzerland, home to Pilatus and their renowned ...

Inquiries into a Piper PA-46 landing accident in eastern France have underlined how companies facilitating private flights can easily be mistaken for commercial airlines by unwary and uninformed ...

New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media. It shows a plane landing on a runway. The caption accompanying the video says, “Landing in Bhutan is considered one of the most dangerous and ...

This may just be the most daring airport in the world (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) There are terrifyingly short runways, a runway shared by three countries, the largest runway in the world, but ...