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JetBlue Launches First Italy Flights With New Boston To Milan Route – One Way Fares Starting At $399
JetBlue has launched its first-ever flights to Italy with a new daily summer seasonal service between Boston Logan International Airport and Milan Malpensa Airport. The new Boston to Milan route began operating on May 11 and expands JetBlue’s transatlantic network to nine nonstop European destinations from Boston during the summer season. The airline is offering…
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Two Airliners Collided Over The Grand Canyon – In Broad Daylight 128 Aboard TWA Flight 2 And United Flight 718 Perished – 70-Year-Old Disaster Still Haunts Aviation History
The June 30, 1956, midair collision above the Grand Canyon killed all 128 aboard TWA Flight 2 and United 718. Pilots struggled to see each other due to constant bearing, decreasing range, and cockpit obstructions. The hardest airplane to see in the sky may be the one flying directly toward you. That should be impossible.…
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Flight Attendant Thought She Was Auditioning For A Safety Video, But Ended Up In The Devil Wears Prada 2
Tanya Hutchinson has always wanted to be in an airplane safety video. So when the Los Angeles-based flight attendant heard that United Airlines was casting for one, she was eager to audition. “I submitted a tape, and then when I got the callback on my birthday from United, they were like, ‘Congratulations!’” she tells PEOPLE.…
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A Cross-Country Southwest Flight’s Windshield Cracked At 37,000 Feet And Forced A Diversion
A Southwest Airlines flight diverted after the plane’s windshield cracked in midair. Monday’s Flight 2665 took off from Albuquerque around 2 p.m., about 20 minutes behind schedule. It was set to land in Baltimore about three and a half hours later. However, data from Flightradar24 shows that just over an hour into the journey and…
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Passengers Trapped In Smoke-Filled Aircraft And Left On Cold Tarmac For Several Minutes – NTSB Investigates Frontier Evacuation Lapses, If Any
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is collecting information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines aircraft after the jet struck and killed a person on the runway during departure from Denver international airport. The flight, which was headed from Denver to Los Angeles international airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at…
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“Welcome Back To Atlanta!” Delta’s Nigeria-Bound Airbus A330 Pulls An 8-Hour Atlantic U-Turn After “Flight To Nowhere”
A Nigeria-bound Delta Air Lines Airbus A330 was forced to return to Atlanta after spending nearly eight hours in the air over the Atlantic Ocean on May 9. Flight DL54, operating from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to Lagos Airport (LOS), turned around mid-flight due to what the airline described as “operational issues.” The aircraft…
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“How A Frontier Flight Was Able To Abort Takeoff After Person Walked In Front Of Plane On DIA Runway”
When the pilots of Frontier Flight 4345 aborted Friday night’s flight after a person walked onto the runway and into the plane’s path, the flight had not yet reached the point of no return speed, known as V1 Speed. The flight from Denver to Los Angeles was aborted mid-takeoff after someone walked onto a Denver…
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A Malaysia Airlines Flight Burst A Tyre After Aborting Take-Off At Hong Kong International Airport; Injuries Reported
A Malaysia Airlines flight burst a tyre on Monday after aborting take-off at Hong Kong International Airport due to “technical issues,” but no injuries were reported. The Airport Authority (AA) said the tyre burst occurred at around 9.18am on Monday. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH79, bound for Kuala Lumpur, aborted taking off from the airport’s South…
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DIA Won’t Stay Out Of The News, And Neither Will Frontier – An Ammunition Magazine Was Found On A Phoenix-Bound Frontier Flight At DIA
Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight at Denver International Airport were deplaned after a gun magazine was found on the plane Sunday night, just days after another Frontier flight in Denver hit and killed a person. Frontier flight 4765 was scheduled to fly out of Denver to Phoenix Sunday night and preparing for departure when…
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Passenger On America-Bound Hantavirus Evacuation Flight Tests Positive For Deadly Disease, Another With Mild Symptoms – Both Placed In “Biocontainment Units”
Seventeen Americans and a British citizen evacuated from the cruise ship hit with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus arrived in the U.S. early Monday. One American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another “tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday night.…
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