Aviators inside the Hurricane Hunter P-3 Orion prepare to fly into a developing storm to gather critical data to improve hurricane forecasts. (NOAA) If you’ve ever white-knuckled your tray table ...

Holiday travel broke records in July as severe weather forced disruptions at many airports. Airlines oversell flights on normal days, and they're more likely to bump passengers during disruptions.

Paul Williams studies how climate change is increasing invisible turbulence in the atmosphere. Though he knows it's usually safe, he still has to deal with "monkey brain" fear on bumpy flights. To ...

A spate of severe turbulence incidents, including on flights from London to Singapore and Doha to Dublin last month, are fueling heated debate about whether climate change is increasing the risk of ...

Flights headed to Honolulu, Tampa, Fla., and Frankfurt in recent months hit turbulence so severe that some passengers and crew ended up in the hospital with injuries. Actor Matthew McConaughey was a ...

Ever since the rise of modern jetliners, turbulence has been the great leveller of air travel, a sudden reminder that no matter how advanced aviation gets, the skies still have a mind of their own.

Turbulence is undoubtedly the scariest aspect of a flight for nervous fliers — with their fears compounded by not knowing how long it'll last or how severe it's going to get. But fortunately there's a ...

Two Continental flight attendants were taken to Southwest General Hospital for evaluation Sunday night after a bumpy flight. Their flight from Hartford to Cleveland experienced severe turbulence just ...

Bumpy flight into Hurricane Milton on NOAA's WP-3D aircraft known as Miss Piggy on Oct. 8, 2024. Credit Nick Underwood ...