In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor shared that she has an intense case of fear while traveling in planes. “I’m not afraid of the airplane, I’m afraid of me on the airplane and losing control of myself,” Lawrence said. In fact, Lawrence has even acted on her fear of flying in the past, going so far as…
Four people were injured after a private jet crashed late Thursday as it was landing in Istanbul’s Atatürk airport. UPDATE According to local reports, the captain, seriously injured has died. Upon the incident, all air traffic in the airport has been halted. According to first reports, the plane departed Istanbul to Cyprus and tried to return with…
The probe by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the wrong air temperature data is thought to have been inputted into the plane’s flight management systems which meant it was slow to accelerate and lift off. The Boeing 737, registered in Canada but flying on behalf of a UK tour operator, hit a…
The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization, the 240 series was able to make some inroads as a commercial airliner and also had a long development cycle which resulted in…
You will likely not see many wide body aircraft flying at 1000 feet for more than 10 minutes but JustPlanes captured this amazing flight! In 2001 JustPlanes was lucky enough to film 4 flights across the Atlantic on the YES AIR Lockheed 1011 Tristar between Lisbon and the Caribbean as well as Lisbon to Brazil.…
Two RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to monitor a pair of Russian military planes flying towards UK airspace. The fighter jets took off from the Lossiemouth base in Scotland on Wednesday. The Typhoons were sent to monitor two Russian aircraft which were heading towards a UK “area of interest”. Once the RAF jets were airborne,…
An unclaimed mobile phone found in the aircraft cabin of Jet Airways’ Delhi-Bangkok flight on Wednesday created a major scare. The crew of this flight #9W66, sent a distress message to Bangkok by “squawking” code “7700” after entering Thai airspace as this phone was suspected to be a bomb, said highly placed sources. Confirming this,…
Qantas has ferried extra fuel from Sydney to Auckland on a Boeing 747-400 as part of efforts to minimise disruption due to fuel shortages at the airport. Airlines have been battling restricted fuel supplies at Auckland Airport since Sunday, after a pipeline which connects a refinery to the Wiri Oil Services facility near the airport was damaged,…
Pilots working for the travel group Thomas Cook will stage a strike on Saturday as part of a dispute over pay. Their trade union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), confirmed the strike after five days of talks failed to resolve the dispute. A strike on 8 September was the first by pilots at the…
JustPlanes has filmed half a dozen Los Angeles Airport programs in the past 25 years. In this edition we capture this very neat landing/takeoff sequence by 2 Delta Classic aircraft! For the full 3 hour film featuring 300 takeoffs & landings visit http://www.justplanes.com/us51.html
