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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Air travel presents a unique set of challenges for patients with respiratory diseases, as the reduced cabin pressure and lower ambient oxygen levels can exacerbate underlying conditions. In patients ...

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 ...

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 ...