A Delta passenger from Texas somehow managed to use a child’s boarding pass to get on a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Austin, Texas; flight attendants caught onto his little scheme after he hid in multiple bathrooms shortly before takeoff. Salt Lake City police arrested Wicliff Fleurizard on March 17 after he was removed … Read more
Fight breaks out mid-air on Southwest flight from Oakland to Kauai – VIDEO It’s not clear how a fistfight broke out on Southwest Airlines Flight 1288, but someone pulled out a camera to record the incident. When the recording started, there was already an argument underway on the flight from Oakland, California to Hawaii. A … Read more
Screenshot: NBC 6 South Florida on YouTube In southern Florida, police are cracking down on a new environmental hazard: Derelict boats, left floating just offshore, that can leak pollutants into the local waterways. Yet, the focus of the effort doesn’t seem to be the boats themselves — instead, cops are more concerned about the unhoused … Read more
Photo: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group (Getty Images) The nose wheel of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 came off while waiting to depart from Atlanta, Georgia last Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. The venerable 757 is entering its fifth decade of service, with the newest airframes being 20 years old. While … Read more
A Virgin Atlantic flight bound for New York City was canceled right before it was set to take off on January 15 after a passenger noticed that several screws were missing from the Airbus A330’s wing. Phil Hardy, a British traveler, was sitting onboard Virgin Flight 127 at Manchester Airport in England when he noticed … Read more
In 1988 a famous sailing yacht went missing, leaving behind a strange final message, a mangled investigation and questions of suicide, piracy, mutiny and drug trafficking. I’ve long been fascinated by ship wrecks and disappearances and this one is one of my favorites, not only because it’s such a mysterious story, but because the ship … Read more
Photo: kickers (Getty Images) A flight carrying British cruise-goers from Barbados to Manchester was forced to divert to Bermuda after an incident of extreme turbulence two days before Christmas. There were 225 passengers onboard the Airbus A330-200 operated by Maleth Aero, a Maltese charter airline. When the aircraft landed, 11 people were transported to a … Read more
Airbus Sold Only One (1) Of Its Worst-Selling Planes This Year Uganda Airlines is in the exclusive club of having two A330-800neo planesPhoto: Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua (Getty Images) World’s First All-Electric Passenger Plane The Airbus A330-800neo is the European aircraft manufacturer’s worst-selling plane. Only a single order was placed for the mid-size long-haul jet this year. … Read more
Uganda Airlines is in the exclusive club of having two A330-800neo planesPhoto: Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua (Getty Images) The Airbus A330-800neo is the European aircraft manufacturer’s worst-selling plane. Only a single order was placed for the mid-size long-haul jet this year. Airbus somehow managed to do this despite having an effective market duopoly with Boeing during a … Read more
