United Airlines will fly passengers on its Boeing 747 for the last time today. The carrier is operating one last flight on the iconic jumbo jet, a specially scheduled “farewell” flight from San Francisco to Honolulu operating as United Flight 747. The flight will be United’s final passenger flight on the 747 before retiring the…
A single-engine AS350BA Squirrel helicopter owned by RotorLift Aviation has crashed at Hobart Airport just before 5:30pm local time. One person has died with another critically injured. RotorLift operates the Tasmanian Police helicopter, flies tours and does flight training. An eyewitness told media that the helicopter appeared to “nosedive towards the ground” from about 200…
Flights of small airport in Alaska were disturbed by a seal. While it’s not uncommon for wildlife to wander onto airport runways every now and then, one animal in Utqiagvik, Alaska, surprised an airport worker who thought he’d seen everything. Scott Babcock, a foreman at the Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport, said he saw a…
A man pretending to talk on a cellphone made it past Miami International Airport security Saturday, jumped onto a luggage carousel, and sprinted onto the tarmac, exclusive video shows. The footage shows a man casually strolling past an empty security checkpoint at the American Airlines ticket counter and diving into a luggage conveyor belt. The…
A plane from the Latvian national airline Air Baltic was hit by an air bridge Riga International Airport. The Bombardier Dash8 Q400 (reg. LY-BBT) flight #BT360 from Turku Airport (Finland) landed at Riga International Airport on Friday at around 6:25 local time. Passengers were disembarked when the plane was hit by an air bridge while…
Sunday night, Ryanair #flight #FR1431 to Athens was taking off from Rhodes Airport shortly after 22:00 local time when when the aircraft was hit by a dog on runway. The collision was instantly perceived by the captain. But at speed of V1, the Boeing 737-800 had to takeoff and stopped climb at 4,000ft before to…
