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Montana plane crash kills 17, including children

Posted 2009/03/22 at 8:48 pm EDT

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 22, 2009 (Reuters) — A single-engine plane, reported to be carrying children on a ski vacation to the Rocky Mountains, crashed on approach to an airport in western Montana on Sunday, killing 17 people, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Flames and billowing smoke rise after a single-engine private passenger plane crashed into a cemetery, on approach to [...]

Fear of revenge strike on Prince Harry after claims he killed Taliban chief

The warlords of Afghanistan had already put a £25,000 price on Prince Harry’s head.

And last night military experts feared the bounty for assassinating him may have increased dramatically.

It follows unofficial reports yesterday that co-pilot Harry, 28 , had killed his first Taliban commander as he flew a mission as part of an Apache gunship crew.

He and his comrades are said to have unleashed a Hellfire missile to eliminate the terror chief after [...]

Humanity In the Middle of War

by WashingtonsBlog

 

Preface:  The opposite of demonizing the enemy is humanity. The stories gathered below illustrate humanity in the middle of war.

None of that was as shocking as the German pilot now suddenly to his right.

Brown thought he was hallucinating. He did that thing you see people do in movies: He closed his eyes and shook his head no. He looked, again, out the co-pilot’s window. Again, the lone German was still there, and now [...]

Passenger steps in to land 747 after pilot falls ill… because he happens to be off-duty pilot

Co-pilot struck down with migraine on flight from Newark to Frankfurt
Passenger reveals he is fully qualified to help captain land Lufthansa jet
Captain traveling on the plane ‘works for North American Airlines’

Plane diverts to Dublin Airport, where accident investigation is under way

 

When someone falls ill in a public place, the wishful cry of help would traditionally be ‘Is there a doctor in the house?!’

But when the co-pilot of a Boeing 747 was [...]

Landing aborted 392 feet from the runway becuase airline pilot was texting and forgot to put down landing gear.

Confused Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the wheels and had to abort a landing in Singapore just 150 metres above the ground, after the captain became distracted by his mobile phone, an investigation has found.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau report on the May 27, 2010 incident on Flight JQ57, from Darwin to Singapore, reconstructed a scene of cockpit chaos.

The captain, of more than 13,000 hours flying experience, was distracted by [...]

UPDATE: JETFU Suspends Pilot that had Breakdown on Flight… Faces 20 years in prison

LAS VEGAS (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — A JetBlue captain who had to be restrained aboard a flight has been suspended after Tuesday’s incident.

“(Clayton Osbon) has been suspended pending a further investigation,” JetBlue spokeswoman Tamara Young told CBS Las Vegas.

Passengers aboard an early morning flight from New York bound for Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane’s top pilot, Clayton Osbon, came out of the cockpit, didn’t close the door [...]

‘We’re all going down. Say your prayers’: Beserk JetBlue captain has to be restrained by PASSENGERS after being ejected from cockpit in mid-flight and running up and down aisle screaming

Unruly pilot identified as Clayton Osbon, 49, who has been a JetBlue captain for 12 years 
Captain screamed ‘Iraq, al-Qaeda, terrorism, we’re all going down’ after coming out of the toilet telling passengers ‘say your prayers, say your prayers’

Passengers looked on in horror as the married captain tried to break into the cockpit after being locked out 
Flight attendant urged passengers to restrain the increasingly erratic captain
Four passengers, including a retired NYPD [...]

New Evidence Reveals Half of Pilots Were Only Assigned to 9/11 Flights at the Last Minute

911 Blogger
February 15, 2012

Thomas McGuinness, the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 before it became the first plane to be hijacked in the 9/11 attacks, only assigned himself to be on the flight the afternoon before September 11, 2001, and pushed from it the original co-pilot, who had put his name down for the flight less than half an hour earlier. This new information means that, curiously, half of the [...]

SOUTWEST AIRLINES pilot suspended for whining about gay crew

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Southwest Airlines was once well known for hiring only female flight attendants and dressing them in hot pants.  At least one of its pilots apparently dislikes that it’s not like that anymore.

“Eleven f***ing over-the-top f***ing a** f***ing homosexuals and a granny.  Eleven! I mean, think of the odds of that,” the unidentified pilot said during a March flight.

Wash. state man convicted of blinding US Customs helicopter pilot by shining spotlight on him – Bellingham Herald

SEATTLE – Wayne P. Groen, 42, of Lynden was convicted Thursday, April 28, on a charge he incapacitated the pilot of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter along the Canadian border on Sept. 22, 2010.

Following a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court, a jury found Groen guilty of incapacitating an individual during authorized operation of an aircraft.

However, the jury found Groen not guilty on a second charge of interference [...]

Indian helicopter crash kills 17

New Delhi (CNN) — A helicopter caught fire on touch-down in India’s remote northeastern mountainous region Tuesday, killing 17 people, authorities said.

Arunachal Pradesh state’s civil aviation commissioner Hage Khoda told CNN that at least six people, including the pilot and the co-pilot, were injured in the crash that happened at around 2 p.m.

The incident happened when the helicopter, belonging to the state-run Pawan Hans [...]