Passengers are asked to adopt the ‘brace position’ for emergency landings aboard aircraft, but could it really save their lives? The short answer is ‘yes’. Despite several grim myths that surround the ...

The claim: Airlines instruct passengers to brace 'to make sure they die' A Nov. 11 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows comedian Matt Rife on an episode of the BFFs Podcast, talking about ...

A viral safety simulation has left millions unsettled after showing what happens when passengers adopt the wrong posture during a plane crash. The short PSA demonstrated in brutal detail what might ...

Flight attendants have to sit in a very specific way for takeoff and landing. Here's why—and whether you should too. “The position any and all flight attendants take for takeoff and landing is called ...

Spending weeks (if not months) reading about Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last January led the Air & Space copy chief to wonder: “When an ...