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Since the inception of commercial air travel, the insides of airplane cabins have been associated with a higher likelihood of catching a cold or other spreadable disease. New research has sought out to see if scientific facts back up those sentiments.

Study examines how diseases really spread during air travel

Health

Airplane cabins have been labeled as strong sources of germs and spreadable diseases. But how likely is it we’ll really get sick from planes?

A Boeing 777 jet departing Frankfurt, Germany.

The lab where aging aircraft are dissected for science — and safety

Technology
Laptops and other devices larger than cellphones are banned for direct US- and UK-bound flights from certain airports.

The new carry-on device ban is reportedly about al-Qaeda and ISIS bombs

Conflict
AN-225

World’s largest jet to be delivered to China

Business
The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion maritime search aircraft can be seen on low-level clouds as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on March 31, 2014.

One year later, the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still just that

Technology
A US Coast Guard corpsman at Washington Dulles International Airport checks the temperature of a traveler from West Africa.

Ebola-related precautions on flights from West Africa get praise from this Liberian

Health

Liberian Patrice Juah boarded a plane from Monrovia this week to come to the US. When she arrived at Washington’s Dulles International aiport, she encountered a host of new screening measures, including a system for 21 days of self-monitoring. She says she came away impressed and reassured

How does a jetliner go missing with all of today’s technology?

Environment

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is nearing the end of its 10th day and investigators are no closer to solving the mystery. They may only have three more weeks before batteries die in the plane’s underwater locator devices.

How does a jetliner go missing with all of today’s technology?

Environment

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is nearing the end of its 10th day and investigators are no closer to solving the mystery. They may only have three more weeks before batteries die in the plane’s underwater locator devices.

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