In a shocking incident, a pastor assaulted his wife on an airplane after she got upgraded to first class and he did not. He has been detained and is facing federal charges, as per a report in the Independent. On July 2, while travelling from Seattle to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines flight 275, a group …
The man was “fidgety” throughout the flight. A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas planned to kill a fellow passenger using a makeshift weapon during a violent mid-flight altercation last month. The man, Julio Alvarez Lopez, was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on January 24, as …
US aviation regulators ordered Boeing Co. to halt further production-rate increases for its 737 Max aircraft even as they cleared the way for a version of the jet involved in a near-calamity to return to the skies. The US Federal Aviation Administration said it informed Boeing that the agency wouldn’t allow any further output increases, …
A Toyama-bound flight of Japan’s All Nippon Airways returned to Sapporo-New Chitose airport after the discovery of a crack in the window of the cockpit. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft was diverted midair after the detection of the crack and the air traffic controller allowed the plane to return to the departure airport. The spokesperson of …
The door plug tore off the left side of an Alaska Airlines jet following takeoff. After a scary airplane incident, the top US air safety official is asking parents to make sure their babies are safely buckled up. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendyat is urging parents to buy seats and FAA-approved carriers for …
NEW DELHI: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun on Wednesday publicly accepted responsibility for the recent mid-air panel blowout incident on an Alaska Airlines flight. In a first public acknowledgement of errors by the planemaker, Calhoun stated that the company will collaborate with regulators to ensure that such incidents never happen again.“We’re going to approach this number …
New Delhi: A safety inspection of all 40 Boeing 737 Max planes operated by Indian airlines has found a missing part – a washer – on one aircraft, aviation regulator DGCA said Tuesday, prompting the American aerospace giant to sound a global call to scrutinise all of its 737 Max airplanes – there are over …
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate uses the type of Boeing Co. jet that is facing global scrutiny after a fuselage section on one such aircraft blew out mid-flight on Friday.Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by Asia’s richest man, is the only one with a corporate jet that’s a Boeing 737-9 Max variant and has a plugged mid-cabin …
A Boeing Co. 737 Max jet operated by Alaska Airlines made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a window and a portion of the plane’s fuselage blew out shortly after take-off. Following the incident, Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft. Flight 1282 was carrying 171 passengers and six flight crew …
Alaska Airlines grounded its fleet of 65 Boeing 737-9 aircraft on Friday, following a scary midair incident where a window and part of the fuselage blew out, leading to an emergency landing in the US city of Oregon. The incident happened shortly after takeoff and the gaping hole caused the cabin to depressurise. The plane reportedly …