The case against Boeing.

While on a flight, a student alternates between his seatmate's conversations and his own painful memories.

On the obsession with plane spotting.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

A flight attendant's love affair.

"Only now, in filling up the legal yellow pads with her memories of Will bent over his maps and her black panties drying on the towel rack and those broken glasses and the plane roar that wakes her up at night, does he seem more lost then her. She wasn’t a bird, not a bit like one. Birds were sharp, had metal in their brains which told north and south apart."

How airlines woo the rich.

A distraught brother is given a Ziplog bag of his sister's ashes.

"So where should he stow a Ziploc bag of his sister’s ashes? Not all of her cremains, mind you. About a third, according to his father. Noah didn’t like the idea of their dad divvying her up, like a drug dealer, weighing out bags of powder. But more than that he also doesn’t like having that baggie now. On the airplane. Heading back to San Francisco. After the funeral."

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

The story of Southwest Airlines.

On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.