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. […]
National Geographic magazine has named nine people as its Travelers of the Year. One of those travelers is Wyn Wylie of Bend, Oregon. Wylie is a drag queen who goes by the name Pattie Gonia. He is a photographer and outdoor enthusiast. Say his drag name quickly – it becomes the name of an outdoor […]
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 […]
As it becomes more and more evident that President Joe Biden is undergoing significant cognitive decline, his staff has been working to find ways to combat that narrative. The latest person charged with the unenviable task of pushing that sort of message is Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates. This week he told Politico that Biden […]
With all of the insane nonsense unfolding around the country and the world these days, it would be surprising to find that any of the major polling companies would run out of topics to ask people about. But that may have been the case at Pew Research last month when they decided to poll Black […]
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 […]
A new report says the Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet that lost part of its fuselage in midair was faulty when it left the factory. On Jan. 5, a portion of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage blew out three miles above Oregon. The depressurized plane, which was carrying 171 passengers and six crew members, returned […]
In the latest instance of Boeing’s trouble in the air travel skies over America, a Boeing 747 cargo plane experienced an engine malfunction Thursday, forcing it to return to Miami moments after it took off. No one was injured in the incident involving the 747-8, according to Reuters. Atlas Air Flight 5Y095 was heading to […]
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