A United Airlines flight that departed from Houston, Texas, en route to Fort Meyers, Florida, on Monday was forced to turn back just minutes into the trek after one of the engines caught fire. The ordeal was captured on video as passengers could only look on helplessly during the mid-air mishap. According to a video […]
Ever look at one of those old ads for airline flights in the 1950s? Well-dressed people in spacious seats amidst a wide aisle being served by a somewhat glamorous woman in a flight attendant — or, as they called them, stewardess — uniform. Ah, what a pleasant scene. Of course, it’s not like that anymore. […]
Almost everything that gets onto a commercial plane — fuel, checked-in baggage, cargo and meals — is weighed. For passengers and their cabin bags, most airlines use average data. But Finland’s national carrier, Finnair, said Friday that it started asking passengers this week to voluntarily and anonymously hop onto a scale with their hand luggage […]
The National Character and Leadership Symposium is an annual event held at the U.S. Air Force Academy, focused on preparing the next generation of leaders for “honorable living and effective leadership.” The theme of the 2024 NCLS is “Valuing Human Conditions, Cultures, and Societies,” which, according to the USAFA website, explores “what it is to […]
A South Carolina man believes his hunt for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane has paid off. Tony Romeo, a real estate investor from Charleston who has sunk about $11 million of his money into the hunt for Earhart’s aircraft, is sharing with the world a sonar image that appears to be a plane resting […]
Just in case your opinion of the Transportation Security Administration wasn’t low enough already, now they’re going to be getting even more of your biometric data. According to a Monday report in tech policy outlet Nextgov/FCW, the TSA is planning a rollout of new facial-scanning units at over 400 airports in the United States and […]
Investigators in Clearwater, Florida, are working to determine how many people are dead after a small airplane crashed into a senior living community Thursday. Multiple people on the ground were killed just after 7 p.m. when a pilot who had just sent out a distress message via radio crashed into a mobile home at the […]
A Russian IL-76 military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by a U.S.-made Patriot missile fired by Ukrainian forces, Russian investigators said Thursday. Russia’s State Investigative Committee said that Ukrainian forced actually fired two missiles at the aircraft, according to Reuters. Ukrainian officials have neither confirmed nor denied that they fired […]
Two former Boeing employees are sounding the alarm about the controversial company’s 737 Max, which has returned to service following a three-week grounding. Both men said they would never board one of the aircraft, which were involved in crashes internationally in 2018 and 2019 that left hundreds of people dead. The Max came under scrutiny […]
A Boeing 737 that was scheduled to land in Washington, D.C., on Sunday was diverted to Denver instead for an emergency landing after pilots noticed the aircraft’s windshield was cracked. The diversion, which was reported by the Federal Aviation Administration, is just the latest in a string of aviation mishaps or equipment malfunctions in recent […]
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