Safety is the most crucial aspect of the airline industry, and over the past few months, several issues with Boeing planes have shaken the public’s confidence. Boeing and Airbus are the two leading aircraft manufacturers globally. In addition to commercial airplanes, these companies also create military planes, communications equipment, rockets, missiles, and satellites. […]
DENVER — A Southwest Airlines jet returned to Denver Sunday morning after the engine cover fell off and struck the wing flap during takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Boeing 737 landed safely, and the passengers headed to Houston were being put onto another aircraft, Southwest Airlines said in a statement. “We apologize […]
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ private jet has disappeared from a popular flight tracking website a day after two of his homes were raided by federal agents as part of a reported human trafficking investigation. It is not clear if the rapper was aboard the jet when it was last tracked to Antigua in the Caribbean […]
A Delta Air Lines flight over the weekend was cut short and the plane returned to Salt Lake City after a panel behind one of the two engines fell off during takeoff. The Airbus A330neo jetliner left for Amsterdam on Sunday but got only as far as the Montana-North Dakota boundary before turning back and […]
Actor Forrie J. Smith jumped on social media Saturday and said he’d been kicked off a flight for refusing to sit next to a passenger who was wearing a mask. Smith, who played Lloyd Pierce on “Yellowstone,” posted a video explaining the situation to Instagram. “You need to hear this story,” he wrote. “You know, […]
There’s more bad news for Boeing. The aircraft manufacturer is either having a run of bad luck or is suffering from internal rot like so many once-iconic corporations. Maybe it’s a combination of both. Whatever the case, passengers who rely on Boeing aircraft to get from one place to another in a world where air […]
The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug pane l in midflight that they might be victims of a crime. “This case is currently under investigation by the FBI,” an FBI victim specialist said in the letters, which passengers received this week. “A criminal investigation can be […]
Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines have reached a tentative contract agreement with the company. The airline announced the tentative deal Wednesday without disclosing details. The contract would cover over 20,000 of Southwest’s unionized cabin crew members. If the deal is ratified, it would end a years-long struggle for a contract between the two parties. The […]
MIAMI — A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti landed Sunday in Miami, U.S. State Department officials said. More than 30 U.S. citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It arrived in the Miami International Airport after the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince earlier this […]
A United Airlines flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on Friday because drunken passengers were being physically disruptive, the airline said. “United flight 883 landed in Bangor this morning after two passengers, who appeared intoxicated, became disruptive. Law enforcement officials removed the two […]
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