United Airlines Boeing 767 flight UA12 lost an evacuation slide in mid-air on final approach to Chicago’s O’Hare

A United Airlines Boeing 767 plane lost its emergency evacuation slide in mid-air Monday near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, maintenance workers at O’Hare discovered an emergency evacuation slide was missing from a United Airlines Boeing 767 that had just safely landed after a flight from Zurich, Switzerland sometime Monday…

Runway lighting stolen at Nigeria’s busiest airport

Thieves have stolen the lighting system for one of the runways at Nigeria’s busiest airport just months after it was installed. An investigation has now been launched to “arrest the criminals [and] recover what’s missing”, Yakubu Funtua added. It is not clear when the system was taken from Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. But…