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Southwest Flight Attendant Jenny Lupton Returns Home Weeks After Hawaii Layover Death, as Family Questions Timeline and Awaits Answers in Ongoing Investigation
A final journey home for a woman who spent much of her life in the skies. The body of longtime Southwest Airlines flight attendant Jenny Lupton returned to Oklahoma on Thursday, weeks after the 50-year-old mother died under circumstances that her family says still leave troubling unanswered questions. Lupton, of Moore, Oklahoma, died on August…
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98 Haitians Arrived Instead of 71: ICE Flight Delays, Last-Minute Additions and a Nighttime Landing Left Officials Scrambling for Help
What was supposed to be a routine ICE deportation flight to Haiti turned into a logistical crisis for Haitian officials Thursday. Global X Flight 6122 departed Alexandria, Louisiana, at 7:34 a.m. and was originally expected to reach Cap-Haïtien around 12:22 p.m. Instead, after hours of unexplained delays at South Florida’s Opa-locka Executive Airport, the aircraft…
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On This Day In 1974: Eastern Flight 212 crashed short of Charlotte after cockpit distractions erased altitude awareness, killing 72 of 82 aboard.
On September 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was approaching Charlotte, North Carolina, when a routine landing turned into one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the city’s history. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, registered N8984E, was carrying 78 passengers and four crew members on a scheduled flight from Charleston to Chicago via Charlotte. Only…
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On This Day In 2001, Heather Penney Was Ordered To Defend Washington Her F-16 Was Unarmed, So She Prepared For A Suicide Mission
Penney was a rookie pilot with the 121st Fighter Squadron of the District of Columbia Air National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base. As the attacks unfolded, another hijacked airliner—United Airlines Flight 93—was believed to be heading toward Washington, D.C. Penney and her flight lead, Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville, were ordered to get airborne and…
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On This Day In 2001, Four Hijacked Airliners Changed Aviation Forever-How 19 Hijackers Turned Routine Flights Into Weapons and Triggered a Worldwide Security Revolution
At first, September 11, 2001, looked like an ordinary Tuesday morning in American aviation. Four scheduled passenger flights departed normally from airports in the northeastern United States, carrying hundreds of passengers and crew toward destinations thousands of miles away. Within hours, those four Boeing aircraft would become the center of the deadliest attack ever carried…
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Delta Flight 419 Returns to Seattle After Mysterious Emergency Over Washington Coast as C-17 Flies Unusually Low Nearby
Delta Air Lines Flight 419 (DAL419), flying from Seattle to Honolulu, encountered an apparent in-flight emergency over the Washington coast Thursday evening and ultimately returned safely to Seattle. The Boeing 767 reportedly diverted from its Honolulu-bound route around 5 p.m. while about 5–10 miles west of Grayland. It then entered a holding pattern over Pacific…
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United Airlines cancels planned 9/11 flyover after concerns over public reaction and coordination breakdown
United Airlines has canceled a planned 9/11 commemorative flyover in Denver that would have featured a Boeing 777 escorted by four F-16 fighter jets. The tribute was timed with chilling precision: the United 777 was scheduled to fly over the airline’s Denver Flight Training Center at 9:03 a.m.—the exact time United Flight 175 struck the…
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On This Day In 1961: President Airlines “Theodore Roosevelt”, An DC-6 Plunged Into Ireland’s River Shannon Moments After Takeoff, Killing All 83 Aboard
On September 10, 1961, a President Airlines Douglas DC-6B named Theodore Roosevelt disappeared into the River Shannon shortly after taking off from Shannon Airport in Ireland. The tragedy killed all 83 people aboard — 77 passengers and six crew members — making it the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Irish territory. The aircraft, registered…
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EasyJet faces $72 million law suit after six Airbus jets were stranded for years, with millions lost over their deteriorating condition.
A legal battle is brewing over six Airbus aircraft that became caught in the fallout from Russia-related sanctions. Russian state-owned aircraft lessor GTLK Europe is seeking at least $72 million from easyJet in a lawsuit filed at London’s High Court. The case alleges easyJet abandoned six leased Airbus jets in Madrid and Cyprus in 2022…
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NTSB Releases Prime Air 767 Cockpit Transcript: Pilot Recognized Aircraft Was “Too Fast” Before Deadly Runway Overrun
The preliminary cockpit voice recorder transcript shows at least one pilot recognized that the Boeing 767 was “too fast” during the approach to Miami International Airport. The aircraft landed long, overran the runway and struck a van on an airport perimeter road, killing five of the seven people inside. It then crashed through airport equipment…
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