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A former Vietnam Vet has spent the last 8 years buulding his own full size working replica of a Spitfire MK1 from scratch in a boat shed. He still has about 2 years of building left. 69 year old Rod McNeill is a retired farmer from the Australian state of Tasmania. His love affair with…
A female passenger came forward to news.com.au earlier this month after she alleges a passenger “cracked” on to her by asking if she had a boyfriend after “rubbing” himself in front of her. The passenger, who wishes to remain anonymous, was on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney in February. The passenger told news.com.au she…
A passenger that was “bumped off” a United flight was offered a voucher worth up to $US10,000. Allison Preiss of Washington DC was trying to get to Austin, Texas for a bachelorette party. A seat on the fully booked flight was broken which meant United needed to bump someone. No one volunteered, so United chose…
A Drunk TAP Air Portugal pilot has been arrested by police at Stuttgart Airport. More than 100 Passengers are stranded at Stuttgart Airport in Germany, after the drunken co-pilot was detained shortly before flight #TP523 was due to take off, heading to Lisbon Airport on Friday evening. An airport employee noticed him staggering and smelling…
A 38 year old man is facing five years jail and a $A10,500 fine after agreeing to air rage charges in Adelaide’s Magistrates Court on 23 March. Robert Foster was travelling on #TT313 with his 9 year old son from Brisbane to Adelaide on 11 December 2016. The plane was met by Australian Federal Police…
The incident took place onboard Air India flight #AI121 on March 17 to Frankfurt. Over an hour after it departed Delhi airport at 2.20pm, “a flight attendant mistakenly served a business-class passenger non-vegetarian meal instead of a vegetarian one. The passenger, who was seated on 1D, saw it was wrong meal and pointed it out…
Eurowings has received its first Airbus A340-300. The German low-cost carrier started testing the commercial capabilities of the A340-300 on regular scheduled short haul flights within Europe on Tuesday. OO-SCW, its first aircraft of this type, is operated by Lufthansa Group affiliate Brussels Airlines. Since being delivered in 2000, it was part of the Lufthansa…
According to BBC, The pilot of a vintage jet which crashed on to a dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 men, is to be charged with manslaughter. The pilot was performing aerobatics when the Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in Sussex on 22 August 2015. Families of those who died…
A man from the Australian state of Queensland was received approval to fly his replica Spitire to work everyday. Patrick English had put in a development application with the Mareeba Shire Council to increase the amount of flights he is able to make from his private airstrip. Previously he was only allowed 52 flights a…
Gun-wielding officers raided the Gulf Air jet shortly after 3pm – nearly eight hours after it took off from Bahrain International Airport. Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest was not terror-related. A spokesman said: “At around 3pm on Tuesday, March 20, Met officers arrested a 29-year-old man on board an inbound flight to Heathrow from Bahrain.…
