Two pilots and two crewmembers safely bailed out of a Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft before it crashed north of Norfolk, Virginia, during a Monday training flight. The Hawkeye, a twin turboprop airborne early warning and command-and-control aircraft, crashed near Wallops Island at about 4:05 p.m., Navy officials announced Monday afternoon. There are no reports of…
On Sunday, August 30th, Airlines pilots landing at LAX Airport, reported seeing “a guy in a jetpack” flying around 300 yards next to their wing while they were on the final approach. The pilots of American Airlines flight 1997 from Philadelphia reported the situation with the ATC: American Flight 1997: “Tower, American 1997, we just…
NATO says that a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jet committed a “significant violation” of Danish airspace while intercepting a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress in the Baltic Sea region last week. The incident occurred as six of these heavy bombers, including four from a detachment presently forward-deployed in the United Kingdom, were conducting overflights of…