A video showing an Emirates flight attendant of flight from Dubai to Barcelona pouring a glass of champagne back into the bottle has caused a stir after it was posted online. The footage was recorded by Russian passenger Yevgeny Kaymov who unknowingly filmed the incident on a business class flight to Dubai. He posted the video to…
Germany’s military is launching a new “aviation cyber expertise” as an urgent measure in response to a government-funded research revealing that hackers would be able to seize command of a military aircraft with equipment worth just a few thousand dollars. The new initiative, propelled by the head of the German Military Aviation Authority, Major General…
A New Zealand tourist died on Wednesday afternoon after hitting her head on a concrete block behind the Princess Juliana International Airport SXM fence on the Maho Beach side. Tourists gather on a daily basis to experience jet blasts from aircrafts taking off from the runway. Reports suggest that the woman was holding onto the…
A spectacular stovepipe tornado formed on a severe isolated supercell near Vienna, Austria last Monday. No significant damage has so far been reported, but the passengers at the Vienna airport were treated to a spectacle – and likely a somewhat uneasy feeling about flying.
A passenger claims American Airline staff saw a man masturbating beside her when she slept and failed to wake her up and moved her to safety. Chloe King was on a flight to Paris when the man in the seat next to her started touching himself inappropriately as she slept. Another woman in the row…
A Honda Jet slid off the runway at Chicago Midway International Airport on Wednesday probably due to heavy rain. The aircraft was inbound from Philadelphia, aviation officials said. The Chicago Fire Department responded to the scene. An ambulance was requested, but there were no reports of any injuries. Midway Airport is warning travelers to confirm flight…
Jet2 flight to Gran Canaria had to divert to Faro on Thursday after a violent couple dispute onboard. The couple began to shout at each other with foul and abusive language before the fight eventually got physical – even a few punches were thrown. The altercation took place in front of shocked onlookers – including…
One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists have said. Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has…
An Air Canada plane touching down at San Francisco International Airport almost landed on a taxiway crowded with four other planes, now under federal investigation. On July, 7th, Air Canada flight #AC759 en route from Toronto was cleared to land just before midnight Friday at runway 28R, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. But the pilot…
Sixteen people have been killed after a US military plane crashed in rural Mississippi. Emergency services were scouring a large field of debris on Monday night where the Marine Corps KC-130 refuelling tanker spiralled to the ground about 85 miles north of Jackson in Mississippi’s LeFlore County. Fred Randle, the county’s director of emergency management,…
