McMullen says a plane's environmental system — which monitors cabin pressure, for example — is separate from the passenger Wi-Fi system and is controlled from the cockpit using on-board computers.

These windows on some aircraft — like the Boeing 737, 767, and 777 and Airbus A330 — are designed to be used by the cockpit crew in an emergency (and no, using them is not as cumbersome as ...

Hall's recommendation came in the wake of 1999's Egyptair Flight 990 crash, when the first officer intentionally crashed the Boeing 767, according to the NTSB, killing all 217 people on board.

Yokes, at least for aircraft controls and not electric cars like Teslas, go all the way back to the early 1900s, before hydraulics were on planes. Since the pilot's input physically moved the ...