A Qantas flight from London to Singapore was forced to make an emergency landing in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday after a passenger suffered a medical emergency mid-flight.The Airbus A380 was operating as flight QF2 and had departed London Heathrow at 9:12 pm local time on June 8 with nearly 400 passengers onboard. After flying for […]
American Airlines (Representative image) An American Airlines plane carrying passengers from Philadelphia to Naples had to make a sudden mid-air diversion after the pilots understood that the Boeing 787-9 that they were flying was not certified to land at Naples Airport; it was too big for the airport. The incident took place on June 2, […]
A Connecticut to Chicago flight had to turn back as American Airlines declared an emergency mid-air after a passenger, a Kansas man, grabbed a flight attendant and assaulted him. The incident took place Tuesday night and now the Kansas man, who has a criminal history, is facing federal charges. 24-year-old Julius Jordan Priester was charged […]
Jeju Air, South Korea’s top low-cost airline, faced another safety scare when one of its planes ran into minor trouble while landing at Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam, local news reported on Wednesday.Jeju Air Flight 2217 from Incheonbriefly went off course while landing at the airport at around 12.50 AM (1.50 AM Singapore time) […]
The White House confirmed on Thursday that a flight with eight immigrants left Texas this week, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt lashing out at a federal judge who held that the Donald Trump administration was in violation of his earlier injunction. US District Court judge Brian Murphy had barred the federal government from sending immigrants […]
Watch: Republic Airways flight aborts takeoff to avoid collision at LaGuardia airport due to apparent miscommunication between controllers (Video credit: ABC) A close call occurred at LaGuardia airport when two planes had a recent near-miss following an apparent miscommunication between controllers.On May 6 at 12:35 am, American Eagle flight AA4736, operated by Republic Airways, had […]
First flight under Trump’s $1,000 “self-deport” deal left Monday, Axios reported. The first charter flight carrying 65 immigrants took off from Houston early Monday, Axios reported exclusively, calling it the first flight of President Donald Trump’s new program offering migrants a free trip back home and $1,000. As Donald Trump announced the program a few […]
Black Hawk pilot Rebecca Lobach took one of the series of missteps that led to the Jan 29 crash in Washington. On January 29, the US saw its worst aviation tragedy when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport, killing everyone on both […]
In a bizarre incident, a female passenger of a Southwest Airlines flight took her clothes off and pooped on her seat, prompting the airlines authorities to call the police as the flight landed in Chicago. According to a statement from Southwest Airlines, flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago’s Midway Airport was met by law enforcement […]
