On Monday August 1 , a rocket took off in the middle of the night from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. Its mission, to place the military satellite Kosmos-2558 in orbit. If its precise role is kept secret, it is very likely that it is a spy satellite: its sensors are not turned towards…
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant sustained a compound fracture to a vertebra during a hard landing in California last month. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the impact of the landing was so hard that the flight attendant thought the plane had crashed. She felt pain in her back and neck and was unable…
An Aer Lingus flight made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport with visible fire coming from its engine Tuesday afternoon, according to the state firefighters’ union. The flight from Dublin, Ireland was scheduled to land at Boston Logan Airport but was diverted to Bradley due to severe weather in the Boston area, according to…
A British mother of two died unexpectedly on a long-haul flight after falling into a “breathless sleep” midair on a journey from Hong Kong to the UK, a family friend said. Helen Rhodes was found unresponsive in her seat on August 5 a few hours after she, her children, and her husband took off. Her…
Senior executives at Qantas are being asked to trade their high-profile positions to work as ground handlers as part of a plan to combat labour shortages. The embattled airline’s chief operating officer, Colin Hughes, told staff in an internal memo that Qantas is seeking expressions of interest for a contingency program over a three-month period.…
A knife-wielding man has been shot dead at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Police were called to the scene, an area near the airport’s 2F terminal, this morning. Officers ‘neutralised’ the threat, the force posted on Twitter. French radio station RTL reports that the man ‘showed signs of aggression.’ The broadcaster added: ‘Refusing…
The wing of a JetBlue Airways plane clipped the wing of a Southwest Airlines jet at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday morning. As JetBlue Flight 2519 was being pushed back from its gate at around 9:40 a.m. Sunday, the plane’s left wingtip hit the right wingtip of an empty Southwest plane parked at an adjacent…
FAA pushes safety regulation to protect flight deck as unruly passenger rates remain high. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday said it is proposing a new requirement that would protect the flight deck by adding a second barrier as unruly passengers continue to make headlines. The mandate would require planes used in commercial flights…
Elon Musk said Thursday that he’s not building a private airport outside of Austin, Texas. Local Austin news site Austonia reported last week that the Tesla and SpaceX executive was planning on building a new airfield in Bastrop outside of the city, in close proximity to his newly-purchased Boring Company property as well as the…
On July 23, 2022 Holly and Keely Petitt piloted their first Southwest flight together, on flight WN3658 from Denver, where the two are from, to St. Louis, making history for Southwest Airlines. “It’s been a dream come true,” said Holly, “First, I found this career and fell in love with it, and then that one…
A plane has crashed into a ditch after overshooting the runway at Cotswold Airport and three people have been taken to hospital. A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: “Shortly after 10.30am today (August 4) we responded to reports of a light aircraft which appeared to have overshot the runway at Cotswold Airport, ending up in a…
“It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm,” a farmer said of the pieces of debris that wound up in rural Australia. The NASA, said in a statement that SpaceX confirmed that the object was likely the remaining part of the jettisoned trunk segment from a Dragon spacecraft used during the Crew-1…