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Dutch airline KLM has the longest continuous operating record of any airline in the world. The Amsterdam-based airline's planes have been lifting off and touching down since 1919

Drive your pets crazy with a laser pointer all you want, but never aim that annoying red dot at a plane. According to 18 U.S. Code Section 39A, if you point a laser pointer at a plane or its flight path, you can enjoy up to five years in prison to think about what you've done

English may not be the official language of the United States, but it is the language of air travel. In 2003, the International Civil Aviation Association introduced new requirements to the Chicago Convention s

While numerous people have tried to open the exterior doors to airplanes mid-flight (only to find themselves later arrested for doing so), actually doing so would be next to impossible. The interior air pressur

According to a study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, airplane emissions are linked to 8,000 deaths each year. The number of people killed in plane crashes? Less than 1,000

As it happens, the filthiest place on a plane is that tray table you're eating your meal off of. According to a study conducted by TravelMath, tray tables hosted 2,155 colony-forming bacterial units (CFU) per square inch. In comparison, the button to flush the toilet ha

In 2016, a Ukrainian aero-engineer unveiled a system that would allow pilots to eject a plane's cabin in the event of an engine failure. After ejection, the cabin would deploy parachutes to safely lower passengers to the ground. But as it turns out, most crashes don't happen due to engine failure. Because issues tend to take place during takeoff and landing, this would leave very little time for t

In 1985, an ex-con who hijacked a Norwegian Boeing 737 armed with a pistol decided to abandon his plan so long as the police were willing to give him one thing: beer. The plane landed safely at Fornebu Airport in Oslo, none of the 115 passengers on board were

The Boeing 747 burns about one gallon of fuel every second, or five gallons per mile. Reversing this gives us the figure of 0.2 miles per gallon of fuel. This is much lower than the average car's fuel efficiency at about 25 miles per gallon. But, considering the number of passengers

While the Mojave Desert in the Western United States often has humidity levels up to 50 percent, you'll get just a fraction of that moisture aboard a plane. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, the

he black box, also known as the Flight Data Recorder, is actually painted bright orange. The heat-resistant paint used to coat the boxes' exteriors comes in a highlighter-orange hue, which also happens to