ExpressJet Pilot Detained by TSA After Refusing Body Image Scan

Story of an ExpressJet pilot at KMEM on Friday who refused to go through a full body imaging device and was subsequently detained by the TSA, police, and now his employer is involved. (www.lewrockwell.com) Plus d'info...

Live flight track & map of out of control plane over Gulf of Mexico before crashing

News reports that pilot became incapacitated during flight across the Gulf of Mexico. The plane circled for hours before crashing into the sea. (flightaware.com) Plus d'info...

Cathay Pacific to investigate saucy cockpit sex snaps

CATHAY Pacific says it has launched a "full investigation" into photos which appear to show a flight attendant performing oral sex on a pilot aboard an aircraft of the Hong Kong carrier. Several pixellated photos of the act have been published in local Chinese-language media, showing the woman in a red outfit resembling Cathay's cabin crew uniform giving oral sex to a man who the reports said was a pilot. (www.news.com.au) Plus d'info...

Reporter stopped by TSA agent who didn't know District of Columbia is in US

When Gray handed the man his driver's license the agent demanded to see Gray's passport. Grays told the agent he wasn't carrying his passport and asked why he needed it. The agent said he didn't recognize the license. Gray said he asked the agent if he knew what the District of Columbia is, and after a brief conversation Gray realized the man did not know. Gray was able to get through security and then stopped to complain to a TSA supervisor. Critics of the TSA said that what… (www.wftv.com) Plus d'info...

Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA

Bipartisan support should be immediate. For fiscal conservatives, it’s hard to come up with a more wasteful agency than the TSA. For privacy advocates, eliminating an organization that requires you to choose between a nude body scan or genital groping in order to board a plane should be a no-brainer. (blogs.forbes.com) Plus d'info...

AOPA/Jeppesen rebuff patent trolling provocation from Flightprep

FlightPrep has notified entities that provide online flight planning, including AOPA and Jeppesen, that it would like to meet to discuss the FlightPrep patent. The FlightPrep patent is apparently on very specific methods of online flight planning, which Jeppesen has determined are not used in its flight planning products, including the one developed in partnership with AOPA. Therefore, AOPA and Jeppesen have declined to meet with FlightPrep. (www.aopa.org) Plus d'info...

Overtaking a Lufthansa Cargo MD11 (air-to-air video)

Crossing the North Atlantic on NAT tracks has aircraft in the same direction separated by 1000' instead of the usual 2000' which makes for some great views. We were at Flight Level 310 and travelling at mach 0.84 only about 10-15kts faster than the MD11 which I guess was flying at 0.82. Unfortunately they didn't have cameras. (www.youtube.com) Plus d'info...

France: Continental employees on trial for manslaughter in Concorde crash

Nearly a decade after an Air France Concorde crashed from a known design flaw, the French are beginning the manslaughter trial of two Continental Airlines employees in Houston, claiming they are responsible for the involuntary manslaughter of 113 people. (www.reuters.com) Plus d'info...

FBI anti-terrorism expert: TSA is useless

The report goes on to state that the virtual strip search screening machines are a failure in that they cannot detect the type of explosives used by the “underwear bomber” or even a pistol used as a TSA’s own real-world test of the machines. Yet TSA has spent approximately $60 billion since 2002 and now has over 65,000 employees, more than the Department of State, more than the Department of Energy, more than the Department of Labor, more than the Department of Education, more than the… (boingboing.net) Plus d'info...

Girl hits head after trying to stand behind JetBlue engines on takeoff (video)

On the beach at Maho Sint Maarten, behind Princess Juliana International Airport, a girl is blowing through the power of an aircraft engine line and finished the first head on the edge of a wall. (www.youtube.com) Plus d'info...