Someone else concludes, "I hate flying through clouds for this reason. What's up with clouds?" Another line of questioning is whether something might be inside the cloud that the plane could run ...

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This is the moment a plane flies through clouds of smoke rising from a fire near an airport in Indonesia. Dramatic footage shows the aircraft passing over the towering plume of grey smoke billowing in ...

Jenny Marrs doesn’t love flying on airplanes, and it all stems from a scary incident that she once witnessed on an aircraft.

There are pilots who eschew controlled airspace of any kind and will take a zigzag route to avoid talking to a control tower ...

A flight landing in Denver, Colorado last Saturday night provoked light snowfall just by flying through cloud cover on its approach to the runway. As the airplanes made final approach, they flew ...

Stefanie Waldek is a space, travel, and design journalist with expertise in aviation, meteorology, and polar regions. She was a former editor at Architectural Digest, TripAdvisor, and ArtNews.

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The idea of flying a plane of any kind is often daunting and mysterious. Glancing into the cockpit of a plane may send ...