When she explained she needed to use the restroom, the man refused to let her pass, physically blocking the aisle by grabbing two seats ... way to exit a plane is not row-by-row at all.

But according to a 2007 Popular Mechanics analysis, those seats are also statistically the safest ones on the plane. The magazine studied every commercial-airline crash ... t tuck up into a ...

It found that seats in the back third ... affect the odds of survival in a crash. For example, sitting in an exit row can mean a quicker escape from a plane, Doug Drury, Professor of Aviation ...

Those sitting in the rear seats of an airplane might have ... is able to assume a brace position.” If a plane crashes nose-first, passengers up front will get the most impact — but sitting ...

(CNN) — Former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov “was asked to deplane” a Frontier Airlines plane after a disagreement over him sitting in an exit-row seat, the airline said in a statement to ...