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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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.