MD-83 Crash Near Houston

Major crash, many details still unknown at this time. (www.kxan.com) Plus d'info...

Airplane Drops Human Waste On Man While Flying Over His Garden

he said the man's "whole garden, and garden umbrellas, and him" were splattered in human waste dumped from a plane flying overheard. "I know a number of incidents happen every year with frozen sewage from planes, but this wasn't frozen and his whole garden was splattered in a very unpleasant way," she said, according to BBC. (www.ndtv.com) Plus d'info...

Ex-Alitalia Flight Attendants Strip Off Uniforms In Protest

Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia stripped off their uniforms Wednesday, wearing only undergarments in a silent, choreographed protest in central Rome (abcnews.go.com) Plus d'info...

Ex-NYC surgeon confesses to throwing wife’s body from an airplane over Atlantic in 1985

“I went flying. I opened the door and then took her body out of the airplane over the ocean,” Bierenbaum told the parole board in December 2020, according to a newly obtained transcript. (nypost.com) Plus d'info...

Amazon lease at Newark Airport rapped for being fast tracked, bad for minority workers

A proposal to lease two buildings at Newark Airport to Amazon for a 250,000-square-foot global air cargo campus was criticized in a report that charged the plan will hurt minority communities, take away high-paying union jobs and that it was done at the last minute without a chance for public comment. (www.nj.com) Plus d'info...

Skywest Airlines Outage Sparks Delays, Cancellations of Hundreds of Flights

Skywest Airlines customers on Thursday faced frustrating flight delays and cancellations across the country following a computer glitch that lasted about five hours. Around 700 flights were canceled, affecting some of the largest U.S. airline operators, Reuters reported. SkyWest provides regional services for American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines. A SkyWest internal computer problem temporarily disabled operations for about five hours before it was fixed, and… (www.msn.com) Plus d'info...

Southwest Airlines Not Done Yet With Boeing 737 MAX Orders

Southwest Airlines continues its buying-mood by adding more Boeing MAX 7s to its fleet. During the third quarter, the carrier exercised options on eight aircraft for delivery in 2022 while on the first day of Q4 on October 1, it did the same for another eight for delivery in 2023, it said in its Q3-results. More firm orders are likely this year, as Southwest is not done yet with MAX orders. (airinsight.com) Plus d'info...

American Airlines' Q3 cargo yields double from pre-crisis levels

American Airlines saw strong growth in cargo revenues. Why is that? (www.freightwaves.com) Plus d'info...

How The Boeing 747 Carried The Space Shuttle

The Boeing 747 is a great aircraft and has been a ‘piggyback’ aircraft for the NASA Space Shuttle. (simpleflying.com) Plus d'info...

FAA demanding more transparency from U.S. airplane manufacturers - testimony

"We are prioritizing oversight of manufacturers and working to focus that oversight on safety-critical areas. We are delegating fewer responsibilities and demanding more transparency from them, and evaluating key assumptions prior to delegating functions in certain areas." (www.reuters.com) Plus d'info...

DC air traffic disrupted after American Airlines flight stalls near runway

Emergency crews at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. are responding to a jet that has been stopped in the middle of the airport's main runway. The jet sat on the runway for about 10 minutes before fire and rescue crews arrived, according to a video taken of the plane and posted to social media. (www.foxnews.com) Plus d'info...

Zephyr S pseudo-satellite drone hits record altitude of 76,100 ft

Airbus' high-endurance stratosphere drone, the Zephyr S, has set a new altitude record for an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in its class, soaring to 76,100 ft (23,915 m) in the skies over Arizona during two flights totaling 36 days aloft. (newatlas.com) Plus d'info...

FAA demanding more transparency from U.S. airplane manufacturers

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will tell U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that the agency is taking a new stance in overseeing the safety efforts of airplane manufacturers like Boeing Co. (www.stltoday.com) Plus d'info...

Boeing Workers Protest Angrily Against Vaccination Mandate

Several hundred anti-vaccination protesters, most of them Boeing blue-collar workers, voiced loud and angry opposition to the company’s newly announced vaccine mandate Friday outside the Machinists union hall in Everett. (www.seattletimes.com) Plus d'info...

Peach Sells Unlimited Japanese Flight Pass For Just $173

Peach Aviation, the low-cost arm of ANA, has launched an all-you-can-fly travel pass for domestic Japanese flights, valid throughout the whole of November. (simpleflying.com) Plus d'info...

TUIfly Belgium MAX delivery flight returns to Boeing Field after electrical stabiliser trim failure

The aircraft landed safely at Boeing Field at 19:09. According to some sources, it suffered an electrical stabiliser trim failure. The replay of the flight on Flightradar24 shows that the crew had difficulties maintaining altitude and never reached FL150 requested by ATC, nor were they able to maintain FL130 instructed later to return to BFI. (www.aviation24.be) Plus d'info...