People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can travel freely in the U.S., as long as they remain masked on planes, buses and trains, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It is unclear how much impact the new guidance will have. People are already traveling and making decisions on their own. American…
A Spirit Airlines flight traveling from Cleveland to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver Wednesday after a passenger reportedly attempted to open the cabin door in mid-flight. Fortunately, no one was hurt during the incident. “Spirit Airlines Flight 185 diverted to Denver on the way to Los Angeles due to…
The colossal cargo ship the Ever Given has finally been freed after spending nearly a week stuck in the Suez Canal — but not before being immortalised in Microsoft Flight Simulator. The ship, which has captured the internet’s collective gaze during its enforced stint in the canal, has now become so famous that it’s merited…
A passenger was restrained by the flight crew on SpiceJet flight after he tried to open emergency door mid-air. A passenger travelling on SpiceJet Delhi-Varanasi flight tried to open the emergency door of the aircraft when it was mid-air, but was restrained by the flight crew and co-passengers, the airline said on Sunday. The passenger…
Fighter jets were scrambled from several NATO countries as two Russian Air Force planes entered North Sea airspace. At 07:10 UTC, two RAF KC2 Voyager were scrambled from RAF Brize Norton. Two RAF Typhoons were also scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth. Two Belgian Air Force F-16s were scrambled by the Dutch Air Force. Dutch & Belgian…
Boeing and Southwest Airlines today announced the carrier will continue to build its business around the 737 MAX family with a new order for 100 airplanes and 155 options across two models. Southwest had been exploring options to modernize the largest component of its fleet: the 737-700 that serves the airline’s needs for a 140-150…
A Boeing-737 from Moscow that was preparing for an emergency landing in Krasnodar has landed safely, the Krasnodar airport’s press service said on Sunday. “The plane has landed safely at 18:19 Moscow time,” the press service said. According to a spokesman for the Russian emergencies ministry’s Krasnodar territory department, no one was hurt. A probe…
A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, hitched a ride to the red planet with the Perseverance rover, arriving last month. Ingenuity will attempt the first powered,…
Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac at the international airport in Nouakchott and threatened to set it on fire, the government news agency reported Thursday. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident and it was not immediately clear how…
The Ministry of Defence is temporarily grounding all Royal Navy Hawk jets while investigating a crash during a training exercise that left two pilots seriously injured. The crew from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose at Helston, Cornwall, ejected from the jet during the incident on March 25. The two-seater Hawk T1,…
The terminal at the Pensacola International Airport has been shut down Thursday morning as authorities investigate a “potential threat.” “Pensacola Police and Airport staff are currently investigating a potential threat on site,” the airport says in a release. “At this time the airport terminal is closed to passenger traffic. Please stand by for more information…
After Uruguayan Air Force helicopter crash, 300 doses of Pfizer vaccine were lost. The Air Force helicopter that had departed this morning from Carrasco Airport and was transferring Pfizer de Rocha vaccines, suffered a “mechanical failure”, which led to an “emergency landing”, near Km. 184 of Route 9, as indicated to Montevideo Portal, from the…