Two Anchorage-based fighter jets intercepted a pair of Russian bombers Monday night off Kodiak Island in what an Air Force commander called the first such flight seen near Alaska in nearly two years. Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, head of both the Alaskan Command and the Alaska NORAD Region, said Tuesday that the detection and intercept…
Hi-Fly Airbus A340 (reg. CS-TQZ) suffered a taxiway excursion at Istanbul Ataturk Airport today. There were no passengers on board the Airbus 340 which landed from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft is belonging to a Portuguese airline. The plane landed at Ataturk Airport for maintenance and then headed to the hangar when…
An American Airlines staff member has been “removed from duty” after video emerged showing him in a heated confrontation with a passenger. In a video posted to Facebook a woman aboard the flight can be seen crying with a child in her arms after allegedly being hit with a stroller on flight AA591 from San…
On April 6, a federal air marshal left her loaded service weapon in the aircraft’s bathroom of Delta flight #DL221 from Manchester to New York JFK. A passenger found the weapon and returned it to a member of the flight crew, who returned it to the air marshal. The Air marshal didn’t report the incident…
