Many people traveled far and wide in 2024. For many, the memories began during their journey aboard one of the thousands of flights that crisscrossed the globe each day.
As 2024 wraps up, here is a roundup of some of the craziest airline stories of the last year.
An incident that quickly went viral occurred on Jan. 5 when the plug door panel, which covers an extra emergency exit that is only operable on planes with the maximum capacity, on an Alaska Airlines flight blew off at 16,000 feet.