Pilot Stories

Our 2020 Editors’ Choice picks show how those of us in aviation can rise above the great challenges of a painful year.

Fatalities In Crash Of Yemenia Flight 626 (2009): 152 (2009) Survivors: 1 Name: Bahia Bakari Age: 14 Hours Spent At Sea Clinging To Wreckage: Nine-plus Injuries: Hypothermia, fractured collarbone Last Memory Before Crash: Announcement to fasten seatbelt Fatalities On Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (1987): 154 Fatalities On The Ground: 2 Lone Survivor: Cecelia Cichan, age 4 […]

QUICKSILVER Fredericksburg, Virginia/Injuries: 1 Fatal The commercial pilot was operating an experimental amateur-built airplane on a personal flight in the airport traffic pattern. Video and audio recovered from an airframe-mounted camera, along with track data recorded by two onboard GPS receivers, revealed that, during the initial climb, the throttle was reduced, and then increased back […]

We all know the planes and pilots that were first to do something monumental. But do you know who the second ones to those same achievements were? Neither did we. But their stories, when we can dig them up, are very cool.

The disappearance off the coast of Australia of a low-time, UFO-obsessed pilot defies easy explanation, or does it?

This Lear 24 is gorgeous, fast and cheap. It is, of course, not that easy. It’s never that easy!

You know how this works, slow-fly into a stiff enough wind and before you know it ’€¦.

The Boeing 737 Max is returning to service, probably by the end of this year. What are your feelings about being a passenger on one?

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything, and for commercial pilots, the many changes have hit especially hard.

A timely and brilliantly produced web series that’s part history and part tribute.