Rescuers search for 11 still missing from Taiwan plane that crashed in river
One of the bodies was recovered Thursday from the cabin of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop aircraft, which had earlier been hauled out of the Keelung River in Taipei, the…
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Taiwan Plane Crash Death Toll Passes 30
Rescuers were searching for 12 people Thursday morning after using a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital following…
Conrad Hilton charged with assaulting flight attendants, who cuffed him on plane
Hilton, 20, surrendered himself to the FBI on Tuesday and appeared in court later that day, said spokesman Thom Mrozek of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Hilton was freed on $100,000…
Medics check 175 aboard United flight after emergency landing
Below 10,000 feet is a safe altitude for an unpressurized plane. “The flight landed safely, and we requested paramedics meet the flight to assist a few customers who reported feeling…
Barbershop Quartet Breaks Into Song During Flight Delay, Makes Everything Better
A barbershop quartet transformed an irksome flight delay into a wonderful moment when they delighted their fellow passengers by breaking into song. – H/T Reddit
Celtic gives Rangers Old Firm blues
Read: Old Firm re-united It was the 400th competitive meeting, but first since April 2012, shortly before cash-strapped Rangers was liquidated and forced to re-form as a new entity in…
More than 1,100 Sunday flights canceled due to weather
Approximately 1,161 flights have been canceled so far, according to Flightaware.com, an online flight tracking service. – CNN’s Joe Sutton contributed to this report
Airline amenities
When your blood sugar is plummeting or you’re craving that cup of joe that eluded you in the rush to get to the airport, the food and beverage cart can…
Balloon flight sets duration and distance records
The record of 137 hours, 5 minutes, 50 seconds was set by Double Eagle II on a 1978 transatlantic flight. According to rules set by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the…
Delta pilot locked out of cockpit during landing
On Thursday, a door malfunction locked the captain out of the cockpit on Delta Air Lines Flight 1651 from Minneapolis/St. Paul before final approach into McCarran International Airport in Las…
‘Harry Potter’ Star Robbie Coltrane Hospitalized After Flight
www.tmz.com: “Harry Potter” star Robbie Coltrane got off a plane Thursday and was immediately hospitalized after suffering severe flu-like symptoms during the flight … TMZ has learned.
Attendant: ‘Nut rage’ exec cursed and shoved over service
The flight attendant who served the offending macadamia nuts testified that she and the chief flight attendant knelt before Heather Cho, the former vice president at Korean Air, and the…
Co-Pilot of AirAsia Plane Was at Controls Just Before Crash
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian investigators said Thursday that the co-pilot of AirAsia Flight 8501 was at the controls when the plane made its final radio transmission to ground control before…
Disappearance Of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Declared An ‘Accident’
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Malaysia has declared the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 an “accident,” its Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) said on Thursday. The Boeing 777…
Co-Pilot Flying AirAsia Plane At The Time Of Crash, Investigators Say
JAKARTA, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The French first officer of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the sea last month was at the controls at the time of the…
Space Shuttle Columbia Fast Facts
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined that the cause of the accident was a piece of insulating foam that broke off and struck a hole in the leading edge of…
Commercial Passenger Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
On August 12, 1985, the largest number of deaths in a single commercial airplane crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into Mt. Ogura in Japan, killing…
Indonesian Military Halts Search for Victims of AirAsia Crash
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s armed forces on Tuesday officially halted the search for victims from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 162 people…
Indonesian military stops search and recovery for remains of AirAsia QZ8501
Flight QZ8501 went down on December 28 as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya toward Singapore with 162 people on board. CNN’s Pamela Boykoff reported from Jakarta, and…
Bomb Threat Against 2 Planes At Atlanta’s Main Airport
Police are searching two planes at Atlanta’s main airport after authorities received what they described as credible bomb threats. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport spokesman Reese McCranie said the threats targeted…
Fighter jets escort two passenger planes after bomb threat
Delta spokesman Morgan Durant said, “It was a Portland, Oregon, to Atlanta, Georgia, flight. Delta is supporting the sweeping process carried out by authorities.” The F-16 fighter jets were from…
NTSB issues new recommendations to find missing planes
“Recent events have highlighted that recovering flight data can be costly and difficult when an accident occurs in a remote area, outside radar coverage,” the NTSB wrote in the letter…
‘Am I Going Down?’ New app analyzes odds of your flight crashing
That means if you take that flight every day for the next 11,146 years, you’ll be unlikely to experience an incident. Created by London-based company Vanilla Pixel, the app uses…
No sign or sounds of terrorism in cockpit recording from AirAsia QZ8501
Audio recordings from the cockpit of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 contain no sounds of gunfire or explosions, making it unlikely the plane was brought down by terrorism, Indonesian investigators say. The…
Plane passenger hospitalized after landing in Newark from ‘Ebola-affected country’
Luke Punzenberger, a spokesman for United, said an ill passenger was on a flight that arrived in Newark from Brussels Monday afternoon. – CNN’s Catherine E. Shoichet, Susannah Cullinane and…
Indonesia Investigators Say No Evidence Of Terrorism In AirAsia Plane Crash
JAKARTA, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Indonesian investigators said on Monday they had not found any evidence so far that terrorism was involved in the crash of an AirAsia passenger jet…
Airbus’ Beluga: Giant of the skies set to get even larger
The Airbus A300-600ST, popularly known as the “Beluga” because of its resemblance to the white Arctic whale, is the European plane manufacturer’s super-sized transporter jet. Five of these enormous planes…
Ohio terror plot suspect denied bond
An FBI agent said Cornell, 20, planned to set off pipe bombs at the U.S. Capitol to put lawmakers and employees in panicked flight and then gun them down with…
Families wait and pray as divers search for bodies in AirAsia QZ8501’s fuselage
She and her four sisters have been waiting for news of their only brother, Saiful Rakhmad, a father of three children. More than two weeks after the plane went down,…
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disaster: What happens next?
Authorities don’t yet know why the plane crashed into the sea December 28 while en route to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya. Roughly 35 minutes into the flight,…