A LOT Polish Airlines aircraft suffered a cracked window on descent to New York. A LOT Boeing 787 Dreamliner was performing flight #L26 from Varsaw to New York. While descending for landing in New York JFK Airport, a window on the left hand side has cracked. Passengers have been removed from the row seat. The…
Passengers on an overnight flight from Los Angeles to Auckland were shaken up when they awoke to oxygen masks dropping from the cabin ceiling. Flight NZ 5 departed LAX on August 17 and arrived at AKL August 19, 2022 (international date line crossing loses one day en route) Lights flashed on, masks dropped above passengers’…
A 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada was arrested at Warsaw airport on suspicion of illegal possession of heroin worth over $515,000, officials in Poland said Friday. Customs officers at Frederic Chopin airport decided to check the woman’s luggage Sunday as she was transiting after becoming suspicious of her itinerary and uneasy behavior.…
Russian jets suspected of violating Finnish airspace, defence ministry says. Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets are suspected of violating Finnish airspace on Thursday morning near the coastal city of Porvoo on the Gulf of Finland, the Finnish defence ministry said. The suspected violation happened at 0640 GMT and the jets were westbound, communications chief Kristian…
Both pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines feel alseep in flight and were woke up by the autopilot disconnecting. According to The Aviation Herald, the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines flight #ET343 from Khartoum to Addis Ababa fell alseep in flight. On August 15,2022, the Boeing Boeing 737-800 (reg ET-AOB) was at 37,000 ft at FL370 when…
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 19, to announce regions near the lunar South Pole the agency has identified as potential areas for astronauts to land as part of the Artemis III mission, targeted for 2025. This will be the first time astronauts will set foot on the Moon…
NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century…
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was forced to return to the airlock at the International Space Station after an electrical problem on his spacesuit. Alongside Denis Matveev, Oleg headed outside the ISS at around 13:53pm on Wednesday to begin a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk. However, out of the two cosmonauts working on Wednesday, Oleg had to return…
Stansted Airport said some passengers are arriving five hours before their flights, apparently fearing long lines amid the summer travel chaos. It’s causing overcrowding, the airport told the BBC Thursday, and has prompted its COO to urge passengers not to turn up so early. “Three hours before the flight is our advice and that’s what…
A Texas airline agent was suspended Friday after being caught in a wild viral video trading blows with a woman who yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him. The unidentified Spirit Airlines representative was seen at the start of the 90-second clip squaring up to the female passenger at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). “You…
Russia says a RC-135 violated its airspace. An RC-135 reconnaissance plane of the British Royal Air Force illegally crossed Russia’s state border in the Arctic area of Cape Svyatoy Nos, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. The Russian Defense Ministry claims the British plane was “intercepted” over the Barents Sea, near the main base…
Two people died Saturday after a small plane tried an emergency landing on a city street in Illinois. The pilot of the single-engine aircraft attempted to touch down on route 116 in Hanna City. Witnesses say the plane made a sputtering sound as it clipped several buildings in attempting to land on the street. A…