Air Travel

Air quality can affect how well pilots do their jobs, according to a study.

Snakes, birds, Freddy Krueger gloves and a meat slicer are just some of the things TSA agents have confiscated from travelers.

"It is not right to send people to hell," Elin Ersson told fellow passengers.

Andrey Suchilin, 58, was a rock guitarist from Russia who contracted the necrotic infection while on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.

"I thought with absolute certainty that we were going to crash. It was terrifying."

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The men reportedly failed their alcohol blood tests, asked for a 30-minute break, then returned with an even higher concentration of booze in their systems.

People on board vomited, and objects were dislodged in the turbulence.

"The stench was worse than that of a corpse that had been decomposing for a month," one passenger said.

#turtlegate

Here are this year's most bizarre aviation incidents—ranging from the merely odd to the deadly.

The incident happened the same week an American woman was killed after a window broke on a Southwest Airlines flight.

Passengers left stranded with no offer of alternative flights home.

Complex systems are prone to failure, but commercial aviation seems to be an exception.

The firm has released plans for sleeping and recreation modules which could sit in aircraft cargo holds by 2020.

"The extensive use of noncommercial aircraft by multiple members of the Trump Administration is disrespectful to the American taxpayers," Democrats wrote.

"As representatives of the American taxpayers, we are responsible for ensuring that their hard-earned money is not wasted."

Scientists have identified passengers most at risk of catching common respiratory illnesses like the flu.

"She cannot read or write even in her own language. So when you hand her a boarding pass, she's trusting that it's the right boarding pass," her daughter said.

"It is unequivocally intolerable that the Interior Department could be wasting scarce taxpayer resources that are meant to save lives."

Knife fidget spinner, anyone?

A Delta flight traveling from Atlanta to London was turned around twice before making it across the Atlantic.

The former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL has faced plenty of questions about his air travel as secretary of the interior.

Intercity passenger trains are obsolete and have been since the advent of jet airliners.

The number of drunk and disorderly passengers spiked in 2017, forcing airlines to deal with an increase in unruly behavior.

A passenger on a budget airline flight over Chile was surprised when his window came loose from the plane.

A study involving dirty socks is a cautionary tale for frequent travelers.

The Rasmussen family said there were problems with air conditioning on the flight, which was delayed by two hours.

"They said for the flight attendants to get to their seats, and they didn't even have time," said a passenger aboard the American Airlines flight.

National and global transportation systems and the economic activity they support have been optimized for the climate in which it all developed: Machines are designed to operate in common temperature ranges.