When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. The alarming noise ensues when you press the “flush” button in an airplane toilet and the bowl’s contents are magically sucked away into oblivion.

Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At one of America's busiest airports, keeping the planes flying is a challenge with national implications. Add some of the country's most challenging weather and you have to wonder - ...

There are usually a lot of questions when a plane crashes. And the one thing that can help provide some much-needed context is the black box. Interestingly, an airplane's black box isn't really black, ...