A loud bang, a jolt, and cold air whooshing suddenly through the cabin: these were the immediate signs that something was very wrong aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282, according to one passenger ...

(CNN) — It was horrifying enough for anyone when a door plug popped off an Alaska Airlines flight at more than 16,000 feet last year, causing an explosive decompression. But one mother’s nightmare was ...

Airmen, their heads higher & higher in the skies, got a word of warning last week. Dr. Samuel Gelfan of the Yale University School of Medicine explained that the pressurized cabin, which has solved ...

“Explosive decompression” is what happens to passengers and crew members of a pressurized airliner when a window blows out at high altitude. Announcing that it had made some experiments on the subject ...