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The Fight of My Life

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2022December 13, 2022

“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Drunk Mechanic, Shackled Immigrants, a Crash Landing: The Dangers of ICE Flights

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“The airlines behind immigration flights aren’t household names, and they rarely land at major airports. They’re part of a shadow world of contractors that transport immigrants for profit. Since 2004, they have charged the U.S. government — and its taxpayers — more than $2 billion.”

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The Sky Thief

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 24, 2021October 19, 2022

“He was not a pilot; he worked ground crew for Horizon Air. His core duties revolved around loading baggage onto short-haul flights, but he was also trained to tow planes on the tarmac. Silently, and without warning, he’d gone rogue.”

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She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 21, 2021January 25, 2023

“At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.”

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‘We Are Slowly Being Poisoned’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 18, 2020October 19, 2022

Kiera Feldman investigates how toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on airplanes.

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Inside the Airline Industry’s Meltdown

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 30, 2020October 19, 2022

“Coronavirus has hit few sectors harder than air travel, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs and uncountable billions in revenue.”

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The “Flying Feminist” Who Was the First Woman to Design, Build, and Fly Her Own Plane

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“Lilian Bland was the first woman in the world to design, build, and fly her own plane — before Amelia Earhart had even become a teenager. So why don’t more people know her name?”

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Children of ‘The Cloud’ and Major Tom: Growing Up in the ’80s Under the German Sky

by benhuberman April 5, 2018February 14, 2023

“In the sky you could watch history happen as though on the world’s most massive TV, and history’s wreckage could rain down on you at the park with your friends.”

Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction

The Skies Belong to Us: How Hijackers Created an Airline Crisis in the 1970s

by heymarkarms July 29, 2014October 19, 2022

Brendan I. Koerner | The Skies Belong to Us | 2013 | 25 minutes (6,186 words) ‘There Is No Way to Tell a Hijacker by Looking At Him’ When the FAA’s antihijacking task force first convened in February 1969, its ten members knew they faced a daunting challenge—not only because of the severity of the […]

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