After spending two weeks on vacation in Mexico, Richard and Linda Bell were on a United Airlines flight home from Houston to Calgary on Sunday. A scorpion fell from the overhead compartment and on to Richard. They didn’t immediately recognize the animal until a passenger sitting next to them pointed out that it was probably…
The United States dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon on Thursday after it targeted an ISIS network of caves and tunnels in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. forces used a 30-foot long, GPS-guided GBU-43 bomb, at around 7.30pm local time in the Nangarhar Province. The weapon weighs a staggering 21,600 pounds. It is known as the ‘Mother Of All Bombs’…
A mother and father forgot their 10-year-old daughter after leaving a plane in China without her on April 10. A flight attendant was forced to call the couple to remind them that they were missing their daughter. China Southern Airlines flight CZ3484 landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport after travelling from Chengdu. After all of…
Boeing’s 737 MAX 9, a fuel-efficient, long-range successor to the 737-900, made its initial flight, a test mission, about 50 years after the 737 first took to the skies on April 9, 1967, and follows the first flight of Boeing’s largest Dreamliner model, the 787-10, last month, from its factory in South Carolina.
A United Nation helicopter crashed on takeoff today at Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Fairbanks International Airport was evacuated at about 9 p.m. Wednesday due to a threat that had been received by telephone. Airport spokeswoman Angie Spear declined to provide details of the nature of the threat but said in an interview shortly before 10:30 p.m. that the incident had concluded. “It was a threat that was called…
American Airlines A330 landing at Manchester Airport.
United Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would refund the tickets for all customers who were on the flight when the man was removed and that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights. The airline said that passengers on United Express Flight 3411 on Sunday would be compensated equal to…
The ATSB has today released a preliminary report into the in-flight propeller detachment involving a Regional Express SAAB 340 aircraft near Sydney Airport on 17 March 2017. The REX aircraft, VH-NRX, at Sydney airport after the incident. The ATSB’s inspection of the aircraft identified that the propeller shaft fractured, leading to the separation of the…
The ATSB is investigating a stick shaker activation involving a Qantas Boeing 747, VH-OJU, 110 km SE of Hong Kong (BETTY IFR), on 7 April 2017. While holding at flight level 220, the flight crew received a stick shaker activation and detected airframe buffeting. The flight crew disconnected the autopilot and manoeuvred the aircraft in…
Six Russian aircraft close to Japanese airspace forced fighter jets to be scrambled today,NHK reported today. Japanese defence forces first reacted after two Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers were seen close to the Japan airspace in Pacific Ocean. Russia then sent two Ilyushin Il-38 fighters to an area near the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island,…
