Christmas Eve 2002 should have been a happy time. It was my first Christmas with my new wife in our new home in Miami. I was a commercial pilot for a small, domestic freight airline. Pilots who do ...

CHICAGO - As Tawn Makela grapples with the controls of the weather-ragged Learjet, she hears the wind rustle pieces of the American economy. Crammed inside the plane is a mountain of clear plastic ...

The “freight dogs” of the title are pilots: shady operators who run illicit cargo in and out of central African war zones. The place is Zaire, subsequently the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ...

Let’s say you’re the captain of a Boeing 747 out of Anchorage for Chicago. Except no self-respecting cargo pilot calls himself—or, rarely, herself—anything so leaden, so utterly earthbound as “captain ...

NOME — Very little about Danish adventurer Mille Porsild screams “rookie,” from her vast experience as a polar traveler to her background in mushing. She is a 46-year-old who has made 15 long-haul ...