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Passenger Airplane Crashes In Pakistan, Killing At Least 76 People

Passenger Airplane Crashes In Pakistan, Killing At Least 76 People

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft crashed in Karachi, Pakistan, only minutes before landing, killing at least 76 people on Friday, the BBC reported. PIA flight PK8303 was flying from Lahore to Karachi and had 99 passengers — along with eight members of the crew — on board, the report detailed. The airplane crashed in […]

3y ago

Southwest Flight 1392 Strikes, Kills Man On Runway At Austin-Bergstrom International Airport In Austin, Texas

Southwest Flight 1392 Strikes, Kills Man On Runway At Austin-Bergstrom International Airport In Austin, Texas

A Southwest Airlines jet struck and killed a person who had managed to make their way onto a runway at Austin, Texas’ Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, CNN reports. At about 8:12 p.m. local time on Thursday night, Southwest Airlines Flight 1392 had just landed on runway 17-R when the pilot noticed a person on the ground. […]

4y ago

Kobe Bryant’s Pilot May Have Deliberately Broken FAA Rules, Expert Says, As NTSB Releases Video Of Crash Site

Kobe Bryant’s Pilot May Have Deliberately Broken FAA Rules, Expert Says, As NTSB Releases Video Of Crash Site

Pilot Ara Zobayan of the helicopter transporting former NBA star Kobe Bryant may have made the fatal mistake of climbing into heavy clouds, resulting in the crash that took the lives of Zobayan, Bryant and seven others. This decision could have been a deliberate violation of Federal Aviation Administration rules, according to the claims of […]

4y ago

Federal Investigators Looking Into Why A Delta Flight Dumped Fuel On A Populated Area, Injuring Several Kids

Federal Investigators Looking Into Why A Delta Flight Dumped Fuel On A Populated Area, Injuring Several Kids

Federal investigators would like to know how and why a Delta Airlines craft dumped jet fuel on a populated area over Los Angeles, California, injuring several schoolchildren in the process, The Associated Press reports. As reported at the time by The Inquisitr, on Tuesday, Delta Flight 89 departed Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), bound for […]

4y ago

Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 ‘Sure Looks Like’ Iran Shot It Down, Likely By Accident, Aviation Expert Says

Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 ‘Sure Looks Like’ Iran Shot It Down, Likely By Accident, Aviation Expert Says

On the same early morning that Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at United States troops in Iraq, a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing all 167 passengers and nine crew members on board. Iranian officials quickly declared that the Flight 752 disaster […]

4y ago

Kentucky Man Says A Strange Piece Of Machinery Fell From The Sky Into His Home, FAA Says It’s Not From A Plane

Kentucky Man Says A Strange Piece Of Machinery Fell From The Sky Into His Home, FAA Says It’s Not From A Plane

A Kentucky man is still looking for answers after a strange piece of machinery crashed though his house. Nobody seems to be able to identify the source of the big object, USA Today reports. Earlier this month, Tommy Woosley returned to his mobile home in rural Mercer County after having been out of town. As […]

4y ago

A Robot Just Passed A Pilot’s Test, Paving The Way For Unmanned Airplanes

A Robot Just Passed A Pilot’s Test, Paving The Way For Unmanned Airplanes

Uber and Waymo might be dominating the conversation of the future of travel automation, but the Air Force quietly won a huge victory last week, when their ROBOpilot bot passed the FAA’s pilot test and completed its first flight. According to New Scientist, the robot successfully flew a two-hour itinerary at Dugway Proving Ground in […]

4y ago

New Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Report Blaming Pilot Based On ‘Discredited Conspiracy Theory,’ Expert Says

New Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Report Blaming Pilot Based On ‘Discredited Conspiracy Theory,’ Expert Says

In what remains the greatest mystery in the history of commercial aviation, on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines under the flight number MH370 simply vanished out of the sky. After a four-year search costing, as CNN reported, upwards of $150 million, one combing an area of the Indian Ocean floor […]

4y ago

The World’s Largest Plane, The Giant Stratolaunch, Takes Its Maiden Flight

The World’s Largest Plane, The Giant Stratolaunch, Takes Its Maiden Flight

After years of anticipation, the Giant Stratolaunch, officially the world’s largest plane with a wingspan stretching larger than an American football field, took its first flight on Saturday, according to CNN. The gargantuan six-engine, twin-hulled airplane has been developed by the Seattle-based Stratolaunch Systems. On Saturday morning, the massive plane took off from the Mojave […]

5y ago

JetBlue Flight Crew Jumps Into Action To Help Dog Running Out Of Oxygen

JetBlue Flight Crew Jumps Into Action To Help Dog Running Out Of Oxygen

A couple travelling from Florida to Massachusetts gave high praise to the two JetBlue flight attendants who came to the rescue of their 3-year-old French bulldog who was suffering from hypoxia. According to the New York Daily News, Steven and Michele Burt were traveling to Worcester with their three small dogs when their French bulldog, […]

5y ago

Boeing Reveals Concept For Hypersonic Plane That Could Get You From New York To London In Two Hours

Boeing Reveals Concept For Hypersonic Plane That Could Get You From New York To London In Two Hours

Boeing on Wednesday announced plans to develop a hypersonic aircraft that could transport passengers at nearly five times the speed of sound, Fox News is reporting. That’s fast enough to get from New York to London — a trip that these days takes seven hours — in just 120 minutes. The announcement was made at […]

5y ago

NAACP Warns Black Passengers On American Airlines: ‘Exercise Caution’ Or ‘Don’t Fly’ Aboard Airline

NAACP Warns Black Passengers On American Airlines: ‘Exercise Caution’ Or ‘Don’t Fly’ Aboard Airline

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has issued a rare and strong warning to black passengers who plan to fly on American Airlines. The civil rights organization said it issued the alert to African-American fliers due to a worrisome pattern of biased behavior by the airline. The NAACP is the first […]

6y ago

Doting Bride En Route To Altar By Helicopter To Surprise Husband Dies In Horrific Crash Caught On Tape

Doting Bride En Route To Altar By Helicopter To Surprise Husband Dies In Horrific Crash Caught On Tape

Rosemere do Nascimento Silva was moments away from walking down the altar after a surprise wedding entrance via helicopter that only a handful of people knew about, including the groom. Sadly, there would be no I dos. The doomed aircraft crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last December as her unsuspecting future husband and some 300 […]

6y ago

American Airlines’ Swift Apology Praised In Contrast To The ‘Re-accommodation’ Of Dr. Dao By United

American Airlines’ Swift Apology Praised In Contrast To The ‘Re-accommodation’ Of Dr. Dao By United

Shocking video footage has emerged depicting a male American Airlines attendant challenging another passenger to a fight after the attendant allegedly hit a mother in the head with her children’s metal baby stroller. The woman was holding her crying baby. The incident occurred at San Francisco International Airport on Flight 591 and showed the American […]

7y ago

United Airlines Admits Dr. David Dao’s Flight On Sunday Was Not Overbooked, Agrees To Compensate Passengers

United Airlines Admits Dr. David Dao’s Flight On Sunday Was Not Overbooked, Agrees To Compensate Passengers

United Airlines admitted on Tuesday that Sunday’s flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Louisville, Kentucky, was not technically overbooked. This particular flight in question has created quite the controversy for United Airlines after one passenger, identified as Dr. David Dao from Kentucky, was physically hauled from his seat because he wouldn’t leave voluntarily. At the time, […]

7y ago

Virgin No More: Alaska Airlines To Discontinue Virgin America Brand By 2019

Virgin No More: Alaska Airlines To Discontinue Virgin America Brand By 2019

In an announcement on Wednesday, Alaska Airlines stated that it has decided to retire the Virgin America brand name, following a $4 billion merger between the two aviation giants late last year. While Virgin America would continue to operate in its usual hip and trendy manner for now, Alaska declared that the merged company’s flights […]

7y ago

Sisters Traveling To Visit Dying Father Kicked Off Allegiant Air Flight

Sisters Traveling To Visit Dying Father Kicked Off Allegiant Air Flight

Two sisters who were to travel on board an Allegiant Airlines flight from Orlando, Florida, to Asheville, North Carolina, were reportedly kicked off the flight after the duo were deemed a threat by the in-flight staff. According to CBS Orlando affiliate WKMG, the incident allegedly happened earlier this week on Monday. The sisters, later identified […]

7y ago

The Wright Brothers: First To Fly?

The Wright Brothers: First To Fly?

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers were credited with the first flight on record (113 years ago today). Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the brothers flew their aircraft 120 feet over a span of 12 seconds. This historical moment has been a boon for the small town, becoming a popular tourist destination for aerophiles. […]

7y ago

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall: Phone Could Explode During Flight Warn Aviation Officials

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall: Phone Could Explode During Flight Warn Aviation Officials

The launch of Samsung’s latest handset, the Galaxy Note 7, has been largely overshadowed by reports of the phone setting on fire. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned Galaxy Note 7 users against switching on or charging their device whilst onboard flights. The FAA has also advised against packing the phones into checked […]

7y ago

British Airways Airbus A380 Lands With Square Tire, Aviation Experts Baffled

British Airways Airbus A380 Lands With Square Tire, Aviation Experts Baffled

Aviation experts have been left baffled after a British Airways Airbus A380 landed with a square-shaped tire. According to CNN, the plane was a Hong Kong-London flight that landed at London Heathrow on May 5. The incident was first reported on The Aviation Herald, a publication that exclusively reports incidents related to passenger planes. According […]

8y ago

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