Mile-high marriage onboard a Southwest flight. York, a Southwest Pilot, and Sabrina, a fellow aviation-lover, met in person for the first time at a Southwest ticket counter. As the two began dating, Sabrina would join York’s trips for Southwest on her days off, allowing the two to travel together from city to city. The ceremony…
The United Arab Emirates is creating its own rain using drones that fly into clouds and unleash electrical charges to beat the sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) heat. The rain is formed using drone technology that gives clouds an electric shock to ‘cajole them’ into clumping together and producing precipitation. The UAE is…
People who are fully vaccinated from the EU and US will not need to quarantine when arriving in England, the BBC has been told. Currently, people who have been fully vaccinated in the UK do not have to isolate when travelling from countries on the amber list, except from France. But that exemption did not…
A San Francisco International Airport spokesperson says all passengers were re-screened after de-boarding but the teen was not allowed back onboard. A United Airlines flight was evacuated ahead of take-off at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday after a teenager sent a picture of an Airsoft gun to other passengers onboard via Airdrop, an iPhone…
The US has tightened its definition of the word “astronaut”. New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety. That means Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson may not yet be astronauts in the eyes of the US government. These are…
For nearly 20 years, a haunting relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a cavernous warehouse in Northern Virginia. The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, is a macabre jigsaw puzzle of wires…
A serious incident occured at Paris CDG Airport between a United Boeing 787-10 and a Easyjet A320 due to ATC error. On the day of the occurrence, landings were carried out on runway 09L and take-offs on runway 09R (configuration facing east of the north doublet). The controller did not have direct visual contact with…
Viral video captured an American Airlines passenger being booted off a Texas-to-Florida flight after she allegedly refused to properly mask up. The action unfolded Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as passengers boarded Flight 2823 to Miami, which was running four hours late due to a maintenance issue. An agent spotted the female passenger wearing…
A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Malaga was forced to make an emergency landing in France when a passenger died on board the plane. The 84-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack despite the efforts of his fellow passengers and members of the crew to resuscitate him. It was approximately one hour into flight…
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s…
Airbus has delivered the first A350 from its widebody completion & delivery centre in Tianjin (C&DC), China, taking additional steps in the expansion of its global footprint and long-term strategic partnership with China. The A350-900 aircraft was delivered to China Eastern Airlines, the largest Airbus operator in Asia and second largest in the world. At…
A passenger flight from Nairobi crashes at El-Wak Airport in Gedo region of Somalia. A Skyward Express Dash 8-100 crash-landed at CEEL WAAQ Airport, today July 21. The plane (reg. 5Y-GRS) was carrying 45 people from Nairobi. According to the eye witnesses, the plane went out of the runway. Ceel-waaq District officials told Media that…