China has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers at high risk of contracting Covid-19, state TV reported. According to media: “Passengers arriving from abroad in China must undergo a new screening test for Covid-19, carried out no longer in the nose or throat, but in the rectum”. The Chinese authorities impose this…
A stowaway has been found alive after hiding in the wheel well of a plane which flew from London to Maastricht airport. The 16 year old kenya boy was found on Thursday afternoon in the space next to the aircraft landing gear and was taken to hospital suffering from severe hypothermia. ‘He has had a…
A stay-at-home dad is turning a Boeing 737 plane into a camper trailer for family vacations. A former aircraft technician turned stay-at-home dad, Jones has found a creative way to combine his love of planes with his duties at home. Last year, he transformed a 13-foot-long nacelle of a VC10 jet engine into a camper…
A federal judge sentenced on Thursday a former Federal Aviation Administration employee to two years’ probation and fined her $5,000 for willfully and maliciously interfering with the working and use of a communication system operated and controlled by the United States. Joelyn DeCosta, 48, of Honolulu was an Airway Transportation Systems Specialist for the FAA…
Airline pilots are making mistakes because they have become rusty because of the lack of flying time during the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of pilots have told NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System that they have made errors since getting back into the cockpit. On one occasion a pilot forgot to disengage the parking brake when pulling…
A plane carrying Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday in Washington at the end of an official visit, the country’s communications ministry announced. Moreno and several members of his government traveling with him were “all fine,” the announcement said. “The president’s plane suffered a mechanical failure a few minutes…
A female passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight who was being asked to deplane and seemingly harbored some objection to leaving the aircraft at the end of her flight. During the pandemic, airlines have adopted row-by-row boarding and deplaning protocols to minimize the number of people that customers must pass by on the way to/from…
Boeing says 118 orders for 777X no longer firm under accounting rules. Boeing Co said on Monday that 118 orders for its 777X widebody plane under development are no longer seen as firm under accounting rules that require it to regularly assess their viability, leaving it with 191 solid orders for the model. Boeing last…
Four passenger had to eat 66 pounds of the citrus fruit at a Chinese airport to avoid paying extra airline fees. The four men recently gobbled 66 pounds of oranges in about 30 minutes at a Kunming airport after attempting to bring a giant box of fruit back home from a business trip in the…
SpaceX apparently launched the rocket without FAA approval. “Prior to the Starship SN8 test launch in December 2020, SpaceX sought a waiver to exceed the maximum public risk allowed by federal safety regulations,” an FAA spokesperson said Tuesday. “After the FAA denied the request, SpaceX proceeded with the flight.” The FAA is responsible for licensing…
The 100-year-old, who raised almost £33m for the NHS, was taken to Bedford Hospital after requiring help with his breathing on Sunday. His daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said he had been treated for pneumonia over the past few weeks and last week tested positive for Covid-19. The Army veteran won the nation’s hearts by walking 100…
Austrian authorities stopped a man at Vienna airport as he tried to smuggle 74 protected chameleons from Africa into the country. They said in a statement Friday that a 56-year-old man, who was not further identified, had hidden the animals in socks and empty ice-cream boxes when he was caught at customs control in Vienna.…
