A woman who died following an in-flight medical emergency Monday was dragged, half-naked and unresponsive, from an American Airlines flight that landed in Minnesota, a witness said. Passenger told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that flight attendants found the woman, who has not yet been identified, unresponsive in the restroom of the Boeing 737 as the crew…
A Beijing Airport passenger accidentally deployed the emergency chute to her airliner pulling the lever to its emergency exit – right after she was told not to touch it. A Xiamen Airlines flight had been preparing to leave Beijing Capital International Airport Monday morning. A Weibo user said airline staff had just completed the safety announcement in which…
70 minutes into high altitude balloon (weather balloon) flight, OLHZN-5, we inadvertently experienced an extremely close flyby over Newark, NY (**not New Jersey**) from an Airbus A319 operated by Delta Air Lines (Flight #159) which was en-route from Boston, MA to Detroit, MI and flying just over our payload at 38,000 FT. This is the…
South Korean officials said they found a North Korean sent to photograph America’s controversial THAAD missile defense system that was recently deployed to the region. The drone is equipped with a Sony built-in camera and reportedly contained hundreds of pictures, including precisely ten photos of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, also known as…
AirHelp’s ranking of 86 airlines is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and takes into account a number of metrics in three key areas to come up with an overall AirHelp Score. This includes: Quality and Service: AirHelp factors in details from Skytraxresearch.com to help determine an airline’s quality both on and off…
On Monday 12th June 2017, Qatar A350 inaugural Doha-Dublin-Doha flights numbers QR17/QR18.
Hundreds of passengers have waited in queues for several hours at Manchester Airport because of a “technical failure” with the check-in system. UPDATE 0914 UTC Manchester airport system had an upgrade overnight which caused the failure this morning. A total of 12 Thomas Cook flights were affected after staff have had to switch to a manual…
Up to 40 passengers have been forced off a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth over concerns the plane was too heavy to fly. Passengers aboard the Boeing 737-800 flight due to arrive in Perth at 7.40pm told Radio 6PR yesterday they were asked to disembark the plane prior to take off, WA Today reports. A…
