Tag: aviation safety
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Air Force Pauses All T-38 Trainer Flights, A Week After Alabama Crash
The Air Force on May 19 announced it has temporarily halted all T-38 Talon flights, a week after one of the decades-old trainer jets crashed. The fleetwide operational pause, which the service said in a statement is being made “out of an abundance of caution,” will affect units within Air Education and Training Command, Air…
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UPS Cockpit Audio Reveals Moments Before Fatal Crash, Last-Minute Plane Swap Central To Investigation
The two-day investigative hearing in Washington, D.C. shed light on the moments preceding the aircraft’s departure as well. The report states that a last-minute aircraft substitution placed the crew on a different plane than originally scheduled to fly. Investigators say the aircraft had been assigned as a replacement after another plane developed a fuel leak…
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Seconds From Disaster: How These “Zero-Zero” Martin-Baker Ejection Seats Saved Four Crew Members In Idaho Jet Crash
Two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jets collided mid-air during the “Gunfighter Skies” air show near Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on May 17, 2026. What could have turned into one of the deadliest military air show disasters in recent years instead became an incredible demonstration of pilot training, split-second decision making,…
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Two Fighter Jets Collide And Crash During An Air Show In Idaho. 4 Crew Members Safely Ejected
All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided and crashed Sunday during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho, officials said. The collision involved two U.S. Navy EA18-G Growlers from the Electronic Attack Squadron 129 in Whidbey Island, Washington, said Cmdr. Amelia Umayam, spokesperson for Naval…
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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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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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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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Passenger Sues Alaska Airlines Over Harrowing Seattle Flight’s 200-Foot Plunge In Severe Turbulence
A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix filed a lawsuit in King County Wednesday, alleging the carrier knowingly flew into severe turbulence while ignoring repeated weather warnings. The suit involves Flight 700, which departed Sea-Tac Airport on Dec. 26, 2024. MyNorthwest reported that four crew members and one passenger were hospitalized…
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Insanely Drunk Mom Punched, Bit Flight Attendant on Low-Cost International Flight
A mom was arrested after she got so plastered and belligerent on an international flight that she punched and bit a flight attendant, a court in the UK has heard. Zoe Alexander, 36, drank two-thirds of a bottle of brandy to “knock her out” during the nine-hour flight from the UK to Cuba, but instead…
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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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