Thirty years of accident data point to one part of the cabin, and it’s the seat almost nobody picks on purpose. Plus the factor survivors say mattered more than the row, and the 90-second rule that explains why crew won’t let you take your bag.
Every pilot gets a number on the day they’re hired. It decides where they live, what they fly, whether they’re home for Christmas and how soon they become captain, and it’s why a 20-year captain will never switch airlines. Seniority, explained.
Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons shot down a drone over Lithuania on September 15, 2026, the first such intercept in the country’s history and the latest in a string of Baltic airspace incursions.
Every pilot gets a number on the day they’re hired. It decides where they live, what they fly, whether they’re home for Christmas and how soon they become captain, and it’s why a 20-year captain will never switch airlines. Seniority, explained.
