MD-83 Crash Near Houston

Major crash, many details still unknown at this time. (www.kxan.com) المزيد...

Airplane Drops Human Waste On Man While Flying Over His Garden

he said the man's "whole garden, and garden umbrellas, and him" were splattered in human waste dumped from a plane flying overheard. "I know a number of incidents happen every year with frozen sewage from planes, but this wasn't frozen and his whole garden was splattered in a very unpleasant way," she said, according to BBC. (www.ndtv.com) المزيد...

Southwest Airlines Not Done Yet With Boeing 737 MAX Orders

Southwest Airlines continues its buying-mood by adding more Boeing MAX 7s to its fleet. During the third quarter, the carrier exercised options on eight aircraft for delivery in 2022 while on the first day of Q4 on October 1, it did the same for another eight for delivery in 2023, it said in its Q3-results. More firm orders are likely this year, as Southwest is not done yet with MAX orders. (airinsight.com) المزيد...

Ex-NYC surgeon confesses to throwing wife’s body from an airplane over Atlantic in 1985

“I went flying. I opened the door and then took her body out of the airplane over the ocean,” Bierenbaum told the parole board in December 2020, according to a newly obtained transcript. (nypost.com) المزيد...

Ex-Alitalia Flight Attendants Strip Off Uniforms In Protest

Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia stripped off their uniforms Wednesday, wearing only undergarments in a silent, choreographed protest in central Rome (abcnews.go.com) المزيد...

FAA demanding more transparency from U.S. airplane manufacturers - testimony

"We are prioritizing oversight of manufacturers and working to focus that oversight on safety-critical areas. We are delegating fewer responsibilities and demanding more transparency from them, and evaluating key assumptions prior to delegating functions in certain areas." (www.reuters.com) المزيد...

American Airlines' Q3 cargo yields double from pre-crisis levels

American Airlines saw strong growth in cargo revenues. Why is that? (www.freightwaves.com) المزيد...

Skywest Airlines Outage Sparks Delays, Cancellations of Hundreds of Flights

Skywest Airlines customers on Thursday faced frustrating flight delays and cancellations across the country following a computer glitch that lasted about five hours. Around 700 flights were canceled, affecting some of the largest U.S. airline operators, Reuters reported. SkyWest provides regional services for American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines. A SkyWest internal computer problem temporarily disabled operations for about five hours before it was fixed, and… (www.msn.com) المزيد...

Amazon lease at Newark Airport rapped for being fast tracked, bad for minority workers

A proposal to lease two buildings at Newark Airport to Amazon for a 250,000-square-foot global air cargo campus was criticized in a report that charged the plan will hurt minority communities, take away high-paying union jobs and that it was done at the last minute without a chance for public comment. (www.nj.com) المزيد...

Peach Sells Unlimited Japanese Flight Pass For Just $173

Peach Aviation, the low-cost arm of ANA, has launched an all-you-can-fly travel pass for domestic Japanese flights, valid throughout the whole of November. (simpleflying.com) المزيد...

DC air traffic disrupted after American Airlines flight stalls near runway

Emergency crews at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. are responding to a jet that has been stopped in the middle of the airport's main runway. The jet sat on the runway for about 10 minutes before fire and rescue crews arrived, according to a video taken of the plane and posted to social media. (www.foxnews.com) المزيد...

FAA demanding more transparency from U.S. airplane manufacturers

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will tell U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that the agency is taking a new stance in overseeing the safety efforts of airplane manufacturers like Boeing Co. (www.stltoday.com) المزيد...

How The Boeing 747 Carried The Space Shuttle

The Boeing 747 is a great aircraft and has been a ‘piggyback’ aircraft for the NASA Space Shuttle. (simpleflying.com) المزيد...