Outdated studies, misunderstood guidance, and the persistence of a safety claim the author says does not hold up.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oxygen masks were wrongly deployed on an Air New Zealand flight, the New Zealand Herald reported. The plane had been descending ...

Oxygen masks were wrongly deployed on an Air New Zealand flight, the New Zealand Herald reported. The plane had been descending 7,000 feet to avoid turbulence, the airline's safety chief said. One ...

An automated announcement told United passengers to put on oxygen masks during a Transatlantic flight. A passenger on the flight told aviation news outlet Simple Flying that some people panicked.

Talk about fight or flight. Passengers on a recent United Airlines flight were sent into a panic when an automated emergency announcement came on to tell them to put on their oxygen masks — even ...

Yes, we know that flying is typically considered the safest way to travel. This doesn't change the fact that we're hurtling along tens of thousands of feet in the air, in a vehicle that still seems ...

The ordeal left passengers breathless. A pilot on an Air France flight had to enact an emergency landing after a dangerous loss in pressure prompted the flight crew to deploy oxygen masks. The Airbus ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Passengers on a United Airlines flight from Paris to Washington, D.C. received a scare last week after some of the oxygen masks on the Boeing 777 “inadvertently deployed,” an ...

A Japan Airlines flight was forced to deploy oxygen masks to passengers onboard after their Boeing 737 plane dropped nearly 26,000 feet. There were 191 passengers and crew onboard the plane when it ...

There's nothing like hearing your pilot say "Ladies and gentlemen we've reached our cruising altitude of 37,000 feet. Feel free to move about the cabin but please keep your seatbelt on when you're in ...