I will suffer all manner of indignity, up to and including a drunk puking up Jersey Mike's on to my trousers, but if you dare say that I might not be able to board the Flying Nightmare Tube at the scheduled date and time, I will throw the kind of fit you only see in YouTube videos of people that are actually on airplanes.
JetBlue Flight 1230 was headed to Newark Liberty International Airport from Cancún International Airport when it suddenly experienced a "flight control issue," the airline told Fox News Digital. Per altitude statistics from flight tracking software FlightRadar24, the Airbus A320 dropped about 14,500 feet in five minutes, roughly an hour into the flight. It then dropped another 12,200 feet in the next five minutes and was diverted to Tampa International Airport less than 90 minutes after takeoff.
Since the pandemic, incidents with unruly passengers on airlines have escalated. There were almost 6,000 reports in 2021, nearly five-times as many as a year earlier, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration. Over the next three years, the number of incidents remained roughly twice the amount reported pre-pandemic. Up to September 28, there have been 1,205 reports this year. That's already more than in 2020, although it's an encouraging sign that the numbers are falling.
The pilot of a Boeing 737 headed for Los Angeles had a scary experience last week when the jet's windscreen cracked mid-flight, forcing an early landing. United Airlines confirmed in a statement to The Times that United Flight 1093 from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport landed safely in Salt Lake City on Thursday after the windshield was damaged in the air.
A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to divert to Salt Lake City last week after the aircraft's window cracked midair, officials said. Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 Max 8, was about 180 nautical miles southeast of Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 16 when the crew decided to divert due to a crack in one layer of the plane's multilayer windshield, according to The Aviation Herald, a website that publishes reports about commercial aviation accidents and incidents.
A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago's O'Hare airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday's incident, and the 113 passengers on flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement.
An investigation is under way after a Ryanair flight battling with high wind speeds during storm Amy last week landed at Manchester airport with just six minutes of fuel left in its tanks. The pilots had been taking passengers from Pisa in Italy to Prestwick in Scotland on Friday evening, but wind speeds of up to 100mph meant they were unable to land. After three failed attempts to touch down, the pilots of Ryanair flight FR3418 issued a mayday emergency
Instead of soaring through the air like a magnificent crane, Amazon's delivery drones ended up smashing into one. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant temporarily suspended drone deliveries in the West Valley area near Phoenix, Arizona after two of its MK30 drones collided with a construction crane just miles away from an Amazon warehouse. It's yet another example of the company's struggles to achieve Jeff Bezos' vision of delivering packages right to customers' doorsteps with autonomous robots.
A collision occurred Wednesday night between two Delta Air Lines planes on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York. In a statement, Delta Air Lines said that a "low-speed collision" occurred between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia. Endeavor is a Delta subsidiary. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in its own statement that the crash occurred just before 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
On Tuesday, unless Congress acts, America will lose critical counter-drone protections, making it easier for adversaries and criminals to exploit our skies. Absent congressional action, the federal government's ability to mitigate drone threats will be called into legal question, as key authorities lapse. Should this occur, it will put our nation's critical infrastructure and American lives at risk by creating an unnecessary gap in the fabric of our nation's security.
Just three months after the catastrophic Air India crash, engineers have been inspired to come up with a potential solution. And although it may look peculiar, it might just save thousands of lives per year. The concept, dubbed Project Rebirth, is an adapted airplane system that uses massive airbags akin to the ones found in cars. Sensors and AI software can detect when a crash is going to happen, triggering fast deployment of airbags at the nose, belly, and tail. The bags collectively form a huge protective cocoon, ensuring that any unplanned descent to the ground is not a violent or explosive one, however fast the plane is going. So although it might be a bumpy landing, a catastrophic impact is avoided and passengers and crew would be ultimately safe.
