In his latest gaffe, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lamented the fact that airplane windows don't roll down. Romney's wife Ann's plane had to make an emergency landing Friday (Sept ...

Apart from broken windows, faulty doors (like on the Boeing 737 MAX 9), or any other structural deformity that exposes the cabin to outside air can result in cabin depressurization.

Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air. Fortunately, their history-making flight in 1903 lasted just 12 seconds and ...