What Pilots Fear
Patrick Smith is an airline pilot, author, and the air travel columnist for Salon.com. He lives near Boston. His column is archived here.
For additional information, please visit his web page: www.askthepilot.com
Flying is now safer than at any time since the Wright Brothers, but noted pilot Patrick Smith says beware the looming threats: exploding laptops, runway chaos, and cockpit rookies.
How Flight 447 Fell Intact From the Sky
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation.
It was no belly-landing, writes aviation expert Clive Irving. Rather, the jet dropped from the stormy sky and ripped into the water with great violence-but the question remains: Why?
Ground These Planes!
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation.
Airbus must take extra precaution and fix the A330's faulty instruments-which could have caused Flight 447's crash-in order to prevent another catastrophe.
The Crash That Could Happen Again
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation.
A report last night about an airplane's sudden loss of its autopilot system en route to Brazil has some frightening similarities to what happened to Air France Flight 447 before it plunged into the Atlantic.
Picking Up Pieces From a Midair Explosion
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation.
From popped rivets to a shredded oxygen mask: The Daily Beast's aviation expert decodes new evidence in the ongoing investigation of Air France Flight 447's mysterious crash.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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