Two people have been hospitalized after a crash landing at Falcon Field Airport on Friday, Mesa fire officials said. First responders were initially called to the airport around 1 p.m. for reports of two planes colliding mid-flight. By the time authorities arrived, one aircraft had landed safely while the other, an Air Force Warbird, had…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was in its takeoff roll at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) when an ambulance crossed the same runway, coming within 173 feet of the plane. The distance between the moving plane and the ambulance was less than half the length of a football field. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…
An off-duty pilot from another airline has helped a Southwest Airlines plane land safely in Las Vegas after one of its pilots required “medical attention” shortly after departure. A Southwest Airlines spokesman told FOX Business that the incident involving Flight 6013 from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio, happened on Wednesday. “The Pilot was removed from…
Several passengers have been injured after High Fly A330 was hit by severe turbulence. Taag’s Flight #DT650 was operated by High Fly from Luanda to Lisbon. When flying at an altitude of 38,000 feet, the Airbus A330 (reg: 9H-HFG) was hit by severe turbulence over Northern Africa . When the turbulence occurred, 10 people were…
The DGAC has been warning airlines that the kerosene reserves at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports are “under tension”. The supply of kerosene to Ile-de-France and its airports from Normandy “is becoming critical” due to strikes in refineries, the Ministry of Energy Transition told AFP on Thursday, which is ready to make requisition strikers . Given…
U.S. airlines have had to travel long distances to and from Asia because of the war in Ukraine, giving foreign rivals flying the same route an advantage. Unable to fly through Russian airspace because of the war in Ukraine, U.S. airlines are stepping up a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill and at the White House…
Protests and strikes spread across France over pensions reform. The access to airport terminal 1 is blocked by protesters at Paris Roissy CDG Airport. Protests intensified in France since Tuesday after the government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote. Over several nights of sporadic demonstrations there have been more than 1,500 protests in cities including Marseille,…
The Wall Street Journal brings us the report of Boeing’s baffling mental gymnastics in attempting to avoid culpability in the two 737 Max crashes that killed a total of 346 people. WSJ reports, in a recent court filing Boeing attorneys “cited an expert who said that the 737 MAX victims died painlessly because the airplane crashed…
A New York mother claims her son died after he went into cardiac arrest on an American Airlines flight to Florida and the defibrillator on board was not charged. According to a recent filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Melissa Arzu and his son Kevin Greenidge traveled from San Pedro Sula,…
Vigo airport was forced to halt flight operations this Monday due to a new hole in the runway. The pothole was detected on Monday afternoon and activity on the runway was suspended around 7:00 p.m. Aena reported via Twitter that the repair work has already begun . The first estimates suggest that the terminal could…
Country becomes second Nato member after Poland to make such a pledge. Slovakia will donate 13 MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine, its prime minister has said, making it the second Nato member to announce such a shipment in 24 hours, after a similar move by Poland. It remains to be seen how much the jets will…
A video showing screws coming loose on a plane that was in mid-air has been doing the rounds on social media. In the video, you see one passenger point their camera out the window and zoom in on the left wing of the plane which has three screw shaking free. The flight is performed by…