How did Beebo Russell—a goofy, God-fearing baggage handler—steal a passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport and end up alone in a cockpit, with no plan to come down?

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

He was on a flight bound for the English Premier League. Then he was gone.

On the obsession with plane spotting.

For decades, airlines failed to turn a profit despite having a monopoly on the sky. This year they’re expected to make billions. Here’s why.

On finding something at Unclaimed Baggage Center, the Alabama store that sells what America loses.

The mysterious life of the serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman.

How Russia consistently undermines the U.N. in order to keep a multi-billion dollar monopoly on the sales of helicopters and airplanes.

What happened to Air France Flight 447?

The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.