A passenger on a Cathay Pacific flight from Boston to Hong Kong was arrested this week after trying to open a door on the ...

View of an emergency exit in a plane. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are serious consequences for people who try. The most important thing in the ...

Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested a passenger who was on Cathay Pacific's CX811 flight from Boston to Hong ...

Cathay Pacific said on Friday that a passenger on flight CX811 from ​Boston to Hong Kong tried to open an aircraft door ...

Most travelers probably didn't give much thought to the security of airliner cockpits before the 9/11 attacks, and since then it might seem odd to some that cockpit doors are often left wide open ...

While boarding a plane, you may have noticed the cockpit door is often kept open—and there's actually a pretty straightforward reason. If you’ve ever looked toward the front of the plane while ...

We asked pilots what would happen if someone tried to open an airplane’s door mid-flight—here’s what they said. Good news—it would be physically impossible to open the door mid-flight, but there are ...