A Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Houston was forced to make an emergency landing after a woman tried to open an emergency exit door, passengers say. Southwest flight #WN4519 landed safely in Corpus Christi Sunday afternoon. The pilot made the decision to land after flight attendants warned of a potential threat in the…
Passengers on flight D7237 en route to Kuala Lumpur have told how they heard a bang and looked out the window to see the left engine vibrating violently under the wing. The aircraft started shuddering and a strong engine smell wafted through the cabin for a couple of minutes before the pilot made a U-turn…
JustPlanes filmed the Airbus A350-900 (A350XWB) with Latam Airlines on the route from Sao Paulo Brazil to Milan Malpensa Italy. For the full film visit http://www.worldairroutes.com/latama350.html
A Spirit Airlines passenger who booked two seats on a flight due to his size says he felt humiliated when the airline gave away one of the seats without asking on an overbooked flight. Jose Cordova of Westminster, CO, says he purchased two neighboring seats on each of his flights to and from Las Vegas…
Boeing announced its plan to fly commercial planes via artificial intelligence algorithms without human intervention. The US giant aircraft manufacturer gave some insight about its bold plans at Paris Air Show. “In order to be able to fly all these new aircraft, you need 617,000 new pilots in the coming years, but the problem…
JustPlanes filmed the Edelweiss Airlines Airbus A330-200 roundtrip from Zurich to the resort of Phuket in Thailand. For the full 220 minute film visit http://www.worldairroutes.com/Edelweiss_000.html
British Airways has applied to use Qatar Airways planes and crew to help the airline to fly all passengers to their destinations during planned strikes by some of its cabin staff next month. British Airways’ mixed fleet cabin crew are set to go on strike for two weeks from July 1 over sanctions on union…
Emergency crews were on scene at Ohio’s Dayton International Airport on Friday afternoon after reports that a military jet ran off the runway and flipped over during a practice for an air show. UPDATE The plane sustained damage and the pilot and his passenger, a tactical aircraft maintainer, were taken to a local hospital where…
Smoke in the cockpit prompted a JetBlue Airways flight headed for Florida to make an emergency landing in South Carolina. The Federal Aviation Administration says in a statement that flight #B6913 was heading from White Plains, New York, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday when the crew reported the smoke. The plane landed at Charleston…
In 2001 JustPlanes filmed the airports of Corfu and Rhodes in Greece. The full 3 hour video is available for an immediate download at http://www.justplanes.com/ClassicAirports.html
Striking photos released Friday show just how dangerously close a Russian fighter jet came to a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in a Monday interaction deemed “provocative” by a U.S. official. The images show the Russian SU-27 coming within five feet of the wing of the U.S. RC-135U so close the Russian pilot can be…
The 2017 Paris Air Show (PAS) is in the books for global aircraft manufacturing giants Boeing and Airbus, and transaction volume at the show exceeded even that of the most optimistic pre-show prognostications. Airbus and Boeing together announced 937 new orders and commitments (including memoranda of understanding [MoU] but excluding purchase options) for aircraft during…