Posts Tagged ‘airplanes’
Three weeks ago, Delta Air Lines passenger Paula Rodriguez's dog Maia went missing at Atlanta's Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Fortunately, Maia was found over the weekend.
"ATL's Operations team found her hiding near the North Cargo facilit... ...
A swarm of bees prevented a Delta Air Lines flight from taking off on Wednesday from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. The bees gathered for a rest on the tip of the airplane's wing and even blowing exhaust on them didn't motivate the in... ...
**Update The FAA has cleared Southwest's ground stop.
Southwest Airlines has asked the FAA to pause all of its departures. When The Points Guy reported the issue, over 30% of Southwest's flights had already been delayed. Expect it to worsen as the d... ...
**Update The FAA has cleared Southwest's ground stop.
Southwest Airlines has asked the FAA to pause all of its departures. When The Points Guy reported the issue, over 30% of Southwest's flights had already been delayed. Expect it to worsen as the d... ...
At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, police removed two passengers from a GoJet/Delta Connection flight because they apparently wouldn't turn off a mobile phone that reportedly had a WiFi network name of "Remote Detonator." From the Detroit Free Press:
...Flight attendants announced that they’d be calling police if personal WiFi wasn’t turned off, (passenger Aaron) Greenberg said.
It ...
A Roman Catholic church in the rural community of Cow Island, Louisiana dumped 100 gallons of holy water from a crop duster airplane onto the people and their land below. From NPR:
"I've blessed some buckets for people and such, but never that much water," (Rev. Matthew Barzare of St. Anne Church) said.
The pilot had ...
Go full screen for this 4K video of an Airbus A380 landing at night at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The YouTube channel, High Pressure Aviation Films, offers dozens of POV flight videos, from landings in Tahiti and Tokyo to the clip below of the Northern Lights seen from inside a Boeing 777 ...
Film editor Andrew Saladino of the Royal Ocean Film Society analyzes the exquisitely engineered airships in the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father owned an airplane factory during World War II and thus it's no surprise that Miyazaki would pay close attention to the design and cinematic use of airships in his movies.
Japan Airlines is giving passengers as much information as possible to help them decide where they want to sit on a flight.
On Tuesday, a frequent flyer noticed a kid icon on the seating chart for his 13-hour flight on JAL, as the Japanese airl... ...
Reason #256 for why I never leave the house without my Garmin InReach Mini: things always go wrong at the most inconvenient times. You know, like when you're mid-air in a small aircraft that decides it's finished flying for the day.
When Matt Lehtinen’s single-engine Cirrus crashed into the ******* end of Quebec's vast wilderness, ...