A woman attacked two flight attendants on a Spirit Airlines flight to Nashville on Saturday night, was restrained by a fellow passenger. Airport police arrested a 42-year old female for public intoxication after the flight crew contacted officers on the ground at Nashville International Airport around 7 p.m., an arrest affidavit said. The flight took…
Multiple fights broke out between passengers at Minneapolis airport after a flight landed on Friday 26 November. The incident occurred just before midnight, after a Frontier Airlines service touched down. The violent outburst, which took place at the airport’s terminal 2, was caught on camera and shared on social media. One video uploaded to Facebook…
London’s Heathrow airport has reopened its Terminal 4 as a separate arrivals facility for countries on the government’s Covid “red list” as of Wednesday. Travelers arriving from red-list countries will be kept away from passengers in all other operational terminals, it said in a press release.In additional response to the risk posed by the Omicron…
An Aeroflot flight headed from the Russian city of St. Petersburg to Uzbekistan’s Namangan made a landing in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, because of a baby born onboard, a regional emergency source told TASS. “The aircraft captain reported a woman in labor onboard the flight and a decision was made that the plane would head to…
A Malaysian Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Wednesday night due to a bomb threat, according to an official source. “Over suspicion of a bomb on board, the plane landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for emergency and we have been able to instantly evict…
Japan said Wednesday that it has asked airlines to suspend new bookings for flights entering the country through the end of the year, effectively sealing its borders for everyone, including Japanese citizens, unless they have a pre-existing reservation. The move, a response to the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, marks the first time during…
A Twitter user sourced the video from a Royal Navy WhatsApp group and claimed that the original footage is from the ship’s visual surveillance system. A new video posted to Twitter purports to show the F-35 British fighter jet crashing into the water during takeoff as its pilot ejects. The jet, which was docked on…
President Joe Biden urged Americans not to panic Monday as scientists and public health officials assess the threat of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, asking Americans to redouble their commitment to measures that could halt the spread of virus Biden’s Monday afternoon update on Omnicron represented the administration’s latest attempt to assure Americans that they…
A couple was arrested in the Netherlands after escaping hotel quarantine, Dutch police said. They added that the arrests took place on a plane that was about to take off. The couple, a 30-year-old man from Spain and a 28-year-old Portuguese woman, were handed over to the health authorities, police told AFP. One of the…
Authorities in Japan have confirmed the destination will bar entry to visitors from around the world as fears over a new Covid-19 variant grow. The decision comes just weeks after the country softened entry rules, largely in place since the outbreak of the pandemic last spring. “We will ban the new entry of foreigners from…
A British Airways A380 suffered a birdstrike while landing in Madrid. The British Airways A380 (reg. G-XLEF) has been damaged while approach to Madrid. The aircraft was performing flight #BA462 from London to Madrid when it suffered a birdstrike. The bird hit the cowling and went through the engine number 2. The return flight #BA463…
The Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend all direct passenger flights to the Kingdom of Morocco, for a period of 2 weeks, from Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.