Now, for the first time, pilots can safely experience real hypoxia in a flight simulator without leaving the ground. FlightSafety has teamed up with the Mayo Clinic to create a device that changes the ...

Five years after the U.S. military began to see a spike in reports of dangerous mental and physical effects experienced by troops in flight — particularly those in fighter and training jets — aviators ...

Richmond, Va. — A loss of oxygen is a leading theory for why an unresponsive business jet flew off course and over the nation’s capital Sunday before it crashed in rural Virginia. But federal ...

In a recent study published in Thorax, researchers explored how alcohol consumption and exposure to hypobaric hypoxia interact to affect heart rate, blood oxygen saturation (SpO 2), and sleep. Their ...

It's still unclear why a private plane veered off course and crashed into a Virginia forest Sunday, but it's possible that a loss of cabin pressure could have rendered the pilot and passengers ...

A loss of oxygen is a leading theory for why an unresponsive business jet flew off course and over the nation's capital May 3 before it crashed in rural Virginia. But federal investigators are still ...

Federal authorities are investigating the cause of Sunday’s private plane crash in rural Virginia, which prompted a response by military jets that caused a sonic boom heard across the Washington ...

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 355th Fighter Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, receives fuel over the Pacific Ocean May 23. (Senior Airman Yosselin Campos/Air Force) Five years after ...

Police officers walk behind the tail of the crashed Cypriot Helios plane Aug. 22, 2005, on a hillside in Grammatiko, 25 miles north of Athens, Greece. Investigators said a loss of cabin pressure and ...