Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Shairi Turner With everyone catching flights and not feelings, it can be surprising that many Americans struggle with a fear ...

Captain Tom Bunn, a retired pilot and licensed therapist, established SOAR, a program aimed at helping everyone fly successfully, in 1982. He's since assisted thousands of people as they conquer their ...

Intense fear of flying, called aviophobia, is a highly prevalent psychological phenomenon, afflicting (in some estimates) up to 40% of the population of industrialized countries. This staggering ...

For the third time in a year, the media has been transfixed by an airplane-related tragedy: The crash of AirAsia Flight 8501. As with Malaysia Airlines 370 in March and Malaysia Airlines 17 four ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In the past three months, two commercial flights have made emergency landings because of severe ...

COLONIE — A retired pilot and a psychiatrist are teaming up for a talk next month on how to combat a fear of flying. Known as aerophobia or aviophobia, this fear can keep people from traveling on ...

I used to love flying when I was a kid and even told people I wanted to be a pilot when I grew up. But something happened during college that seriously damaged my love of the skies: a friend's father ...

Today, flying is both the fastest and easiest mode of transport between countries. But many of us are terrorized by the mere thought of boarding a plane. Why is that, and how do we deal with this ...