The Transportation Security Administration has recorded a record number of firearms found at airport security checkpoints throughout the country in 2022. A TSA press release states that as of Dec. 16, the agency has prevented 6,301 firearms from getting past security checkpoints this year, adding that over 88% of them were loaded. In 2021, 5,972…
On Wednesday, Twitter banned an account with the handle @ElonJet that previously tracked Elon Musk’s private jet. The company also went a step further by banning users from sharing a flight-tracking link of celebrities, politicians or anyone else for that matter. Twitter handle @ElonJet had previously tracked the Twitter owner’s private jet, specifically, a 2015…
Air India is considering one of the biggest single aircraft orders in commercial aviation history. Air India is close to placing landmark orders for as many as 500 jetliners worth tens of billions of dollars from both Airbus and Boeing as it carves out an ambitious renaissance under the Tata Group conglomerate, industry sources said…
Morocco’s national airline said it was cancelling all flights it had scheduled for Wednesday to carry fans to Doha for the World Cup semi-final. Royal Air Maroc regrets to inform customers of the cancellation of their flights operated by Qatar Airways,” the airline said in an emailed statement, citing what it said was a decision…
A video went viral of a little girl jumping on her seat’s table during a flight. This video posted on reddit shows a little girl running wild during a flight. The girl is jumping, making the front seat to move. The passenger in the ahead seat is moving because of her moves, but still looks…
Flight operations have been halted at Manchester. The snow vehicles are working to clear the runway. UPDATE Manchester Airport is preparing to reopen. Heavy ones #QR27 and #EK17 are about 30 mins from landing. UPDATE As Manchester is closed, Singapore Airlines #SQ51 is diverting to Paris CDG. UPDATE Per Eurocontrol, no landings at Manchester Airport…
A dog was found in a suitcase during an x-ray check at Madison Airport. The image of the creature showed up on the scanner. Later it was discovered that a passenger had placed their dog inside of the bag so as to travel with him. A dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray at Madison…
The last ever built Boeing 747 has rolled out from the Everett factory in Washington state. This Boeing 747-8F will be the last produced by Boeing, 54 years after the first, at same plant, same building. The 1,574th — and last — 747 will later be flown by a Boeing test pilot, painted and handed…
Qantas and Swissport have launched an investigation after employees were seen slamming luggage onto a conveyor belt. Baggage handlers filmed throwing luggage and slamming bags onto a conveyor belt at Melbourne airport have been immediately stood down pending an investigation. The minute-long footage, reportedly filmed at Melbourne airport, shows baggage handlers deliberately slamming luggage into…
Last week, a 29-year-old Mexican passenger was supposed to return home from a vacation on Volaris. The young woman named Marijose Gamboa was supposed to fly from Guadalajara (GDL) to Tuxtla Gutiérrez (TGZ), but accidentally ended up in Seattle. According to Gamboa, the airline checked her boarding pass before entering the plane headed to Chiapas,…
The death of a pilot who fell out of a twin-engine plane in North Carolina in July was an accident, according to his autopsy report. Charles Hew Crooks, 23, who was co-piloting the CASA CN-212 Aviocar on July 29, suffered multiple blunt force injuries in an accidental fall, according to an autopsy report obtained Wednesday by NBC…
A video captured a woman going on a rampage at Mexico City International Airport throwing items at the check-in counter and attacking an airline employee. The incident occurred on November 1, 2022 at Mexico City airport when a passenger arrived at the counters too late to see that she missed her flight and started to…