Category: Aviation
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Jury Orders Boeing To Pay $49.5 Million To Family Of 737 MAX Crash Victim
A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million Wednesday to the family of a young woman who was killed when a Boeing 737 MAX jet crashed in Ethiopia in 2019. The verdict resolves one of the last remaining cases stemming from two deadly crashes that killed a total of 346 people and happened within months…
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4 Killed In Medical Plane Crash In Capitan Mountains, NM, Identified As 2 Pilots And 2 Nurses
A medical plane crash killed four people near Capitan and sparked the Seven Cabins Fire, which has now grown to more than 2,600 acres. Officials identified the victims as pilots Keelan Clark and Ali Kawsara and Trans Aero Med-Evac flight nurses Sarah Clark and Jamie Novick. Cloudcroft Fire Department confirmed Sarah Clark was the daughter…
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Florida Plane Crash: Cocaine & Cash Smuggling Behind The Flight’s Bizarre Off-Route Path, Before It Crashed?
A passenger on board the plane that crashed into the ocean off the coast of Florida earlier this week has been arrested on cocaine smuggling charges. While the investigation is still ongoing and no conclusions have been reached at this time, the possibility of illegal activity such as smuggling cannot be ruled out. Many readers…
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Las Vegas Teen Completes First Solo Flight On 16th Birthday
George Kingman V spent his 16th birthday in the cockpit, completing his first solo flight after four years of preparation. “About four years now. Since I was 12,” Kingman said. Before takeoff, Kingman ran through his preflight checklist, checking for birds nests and ensuring nothing blocked the static port that could interfere with his instruments.…
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Qantas Passenger That Bit Flight Attendant Served With Lifetime No-Fly Ban On Qantas And Jetstar Flights
A passenger has been banned from future Qantas travel after a plane travelling on a long-haul flight from Australia to the US was diverted at the weekend after the man allegedly bit a flight attendant. The QF21 flight left Melbourne at 2.30pm on Friday en route to Dallas and was diverted to Papeete in Tahiti…
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American Airlines Boeing 777 Engine Failure Forces Overweight Landing, Resulting In Using Entire Runway & “Extremely Hot” Brakes
AA194 is American’s daily long-haul flight from its hub at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR). N759AN – a nearly 25-year-old airframe – was operating the flight on Friday, according to flight tracking data from Flightradar24. The plane pushed back from gate B13 at approximately 4:35 PM, five minutes after…
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Meet The Pilots Who Ferried Spirit Airlines Planes Out Of Airports And To The Desert
When Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on May 2, work for pilot Steve Giordano was just beginning. Giordano, managing partner of the Nomadic Aviation Group, told CNBC he organized a massive repossession of more than 20 Spirit planes that lessors wanted returned. In just over a week, he said he and his team ferried…
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Southwest Flight & Small Plane Flew Too Close At JWA – Resulting In Southwest’s Go Around
The pilot of a Southwest flight from Phoenix to John Wayne Airport initiated a safety maneuver after telling the tower that the pilot of a smaller airplane flew close to the commercial jet on Wednesday night, May 13, according to air traffic communications. A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that the…
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Why Flight Attendants Want You To Think Twice Before Pressing The Call Button?
The call button exists to give passengers a quick and easy way to get a flight attendant’s attention. Most importantly, the call button is a non-intrusive way to do so. “It’s uncomfortable to be poked, touched, or lightly tapped, so ringing the flight attendant call button is often our preferred way to assist customers,” says…
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Qantas Flight To Dallas Diverts To Tahiti After Passenger Bites Flight Attendant
Qantas flight 21 from Melbourne to Dallas-Fort Worth diverted to Tahiti on Friday to remove a passenger who bit a flight attendant. The Boeing 787-9 wound up arriving in Dallas 3 hours and 23 minutes late. One passenger on board the aircraft even says that the disruptive man, a New Zealander, was restrained and “sedatives…
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