Eight people were injured Wednesday during “unexpected turbulence” aboard an American Airlines flight from Florida to Tennessee that caused the flight to divert to an Alabama airport, officials said. American Eagle Flight 3609, with 52 customers, two flight attendants and two pilots on board, was flying from Tampa to Nashville when it encountered the turbulence,…
A ‘drunk’ pilot has been arrested after flying his light aircraft from Florida to Missouri before landing on the interstate. John T. Seesing, 35, of Prairie Village, Kansas, landed a small aircraft on I-70 near Grain Valley around 2.45am on Friday. Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) said it believes Seesing was headed toward the Wheeler…
Jet 882″ got in trouble. In this mostly audio-only clip, a Beech King Air 350i pilot gets stopped partway down the runway as he tries to take off without clearance. Incident recorded at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 17, 2022.
A staff at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport was taken into police custody on July 14 after scaring a little girl by telling her that there was “a terrorist on the plane”. On July 14, in full departure on vacation and while several unions of employees of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport were on strike, an Air France flight to Saint-Denis…
An airport worker was stabbed in the baggage claim area of San Francisco International Airport Tuesday morning and a person was detained in the case, police said. The stabbing was reported at around 4:55 a.m. Tuesday at airport Terminal 3. San Francisco police said officers arrived and found an adult male victim suffering from stab…
The pilots of a Qantas passenger jet were forced to declare a “mayday” after running low on fuel as they were put in a midair queue with other planes near Perth. Qantas Flight 933 made the emergency call several hundred kilometres east of Perth on Monday July 18th, which has since sparked an investigation by…
Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed a series of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) flight tests in which a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet successfully demonstrated command and control of three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Boeing system engineers connected Block III’s adjunct processor, known as the Distributed Targeting Processor – Networked (DTP-N), with a third-party tablet…
Airbus and CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, are collaborating to flight test CFM’s cutting-edge open fan engine architecture. The Flight Test Demonstrator aims to mature and accelerate the development of advanced propulsion technologies, as part of CFM’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engine (RISE) demonstration program, on board an…
Aer Lingus has decided to cull one of its flights to Shannon from Heathrow each day this week in order to meet the London airport’s cap on passenger numbers. The Irish airline had said on Friday that it would cut either one or two flights each day between Heathrow and Ireland as airlines scramble to…
Emirates has released an update on its row with Heathrow over the airport’s recent decision to cap daily passenger numbers over the summer. Last week the Gulf carrier had published a strongly worded statement condemning what it called the “entirely unreasonable and unacceptable” move by Heathrow, which Emirates said had given it just 36 hours…
Four people are dead after two single-engine planes crashed into each other at the North Las Vegas Airport on Sunday. A Piper PA-46 collided with a Cessna 172 as it was preparing to land around noon, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The Piper crashed into a field, while the Cessna went into…
Flights to and from Britain’s London Luton airport were temporarily disrupted on Monday after soaring temperatures caused a defect in its runway. Flights had been temporarily suspended “to allow for an essential runway repair after high surface temperatures caused a small section to lift” Flights have resumed at London Luton Airport following repairs after high…