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A 37-year-old woman was shot by police after she allegedly fired a handgun inside Dallas Love Field Airport on Monday morning. The Fort-Worth Star Telegram reports Portia Odufuwa, 37, arrived at the airport around 11 a.m., when she entered a bathroom by a Southwest airlines ticket counter. Odufuwa changed into a hoodie, exited the bathroom, pulled out […]
For locals, it’s no secret that Toronto Pearson International Airport redefines mayhem. However, when the newspaper of record writes about the airport’s disarray, it’s officially reached new lows. “Turbulence on the Ground at Toronto’s Pearson Airport” is the title of the New York Times piece published on Saturday, in which the publication exposes their millions of American subscribers to […]
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was reported earlier this year to have been arrested at an airport in Moscow, with questions still surrounding the widely condemned incident months later. While the arrest itself took place back in February, the 31-year-old Phoenix Mercury player still remains detained in Russia, which was recently determined to […]
Fetty Wap experienced a scary situation this weekend while flying after performing at a show in Charleston, South Carolina. The New Jersey rapper took to his Instagram Story on Sunday to detail the experience, revealing that his plane lost power. “Plane just lost power…Wtf is goin on bro,” he wrote. Fetty subsequently posted a video in which […]
On the latest episode of the Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast, the boxer addressed his filmed altercation with a passenger on a JetBlue flight in April. While speaking with guests Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Tyson described how the passenger, later identified by TMZ as Melvin Townsend III, “triggered” him before the former heavyweight champion turned around to punch the man in the […]
Nine suspects were arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after passengers were sent graphic photos of plane crashes when they boarded the flight. As the Guardian reported, authorities believe the individuals arrested were responsible for sending the photos to other passengers on the taxiing airplane on Tuesday using the iPhone AirDrop function. When people received the images, there […]
A United Airlines passenger was arrested early Thursday morning after he opened the emergency exit door and slid down the wing of the plane as it was taxiing towards the gate at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, NBC News reports. “This morning United flight 2478 was taxiing toward the gate at Chicago O’Hare when a passenger opened an aircraft door and exited the plane,” United said […]
Florida man Fernando Avila Hernandez, 28, has been arrested on two charges of sexual battery for allegedly posing as a rideshare driver and raping a woman he picked up, NBC News reports. Hernandez is currently being held at the Broward County Jail on one count of touch or strike battery, and two counts of sexual battery […]
The two largest discount airlines in the U.S. are merging, as Frontier and Spirit Airlines have agreed to a deal valued at $6.6 billion. Becoming what CNBC is calling the fifth-largest airline in the U.S., both airline boards approved the deal over the weekend. Frontier Airlines has a 51.5 percent controlling stake, while Spirit will control the remaining 48.5 percent. This marks […]
Thousands of flights were canceled in the U.S. on Saturday as a powerful Nor’easter pummeled the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with several inches of snow. According to flight tracking service FlightAware, more than 3,500 flights were grounded as of Saturday afternoon. JetBlue, which had the most cancellations with 579 scrapped flights, axed nearly 70 percent of its schedule. Delta […]
