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The world’s longest flight took place on Friday, but you can’t buy tickets just yet. Australian airline Qantas wants to test just how long humans can last in the air with its first-ever direct flight from New York to Sydney. The flight, called Project Sunrise, is set to land in Sydney on Sunday morning. It […]
Passengers aboard Delta Flight 2353 headed to Fort Lauderdale from Atlanta on Wednesday feared for their lives when their plane plunged nearly 30,000 feet in less than seven minutes. Brandon Tomlinson shared his account of the horrifying event with Buzzfeed News, admitting, “We all sort of thought this is how it’s going to end.” Tomlinson, […]
A man says an airport worker handed him a note that called him “ugly” as he was passing through security. “You Ugly!!!,” the note reportedly read. Surveillance footage captured the incident and shows the worker, who was employed with VMD Corporation, passing the man the note. ‘You ugly!!!’: Airport guard fired for slipping mean note to random traveler […]
A NYC man gained national attention this week after he shared a photo of a perfectly wrapped In-N-Out burger on a street in Jamaica, Queens. The image left many people scratching their heads, as the nearest In-N-Out location was more than 1,000 miles away from the borough. How did the burger end up on a NYC street? How did […]
During his “A Salute to America” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Donald Trump said that troops “took over airports” during the Revolutionary War. Of course, said war occurred between 1775–1783, a time in which there were no airports. “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did […]
NBC News reports Boeing is starting a $100 million fund, which will be used to assist the families of the 346 people killed in the two 737 MAX crashes that happened this past October and March. “We at Boeing are sorry for the tragic loss of lives in both of these accidents and these lives lost will continue to weigh heavily on our hearts […]
Singer Gabriel Diniz died in a plane crash Monday in his home country of Brazil. He was 28 years old. According to E! News, the singer was traveling to Maceió, Alagoas, to attend his girlfriend Karoline Calheiros’ birthday celebration. Halfway through the flight, the small plane crashed near the southern coast of Sergipe, killing Diniz and the two pilots Linaldo […]
Doctor David Dao, the United passenger who was bloodied and dragged from an overbooked United flight in a shocking viral video, gave his first interview about the incident two years after the video spread across the internet. Dao spoke with ABC News about the disturbing video, which shows the doctor being forcibly removed from a plane […]
Two unidentified JetBlue flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against the airline and two of their pilots for allegedly drugging and raping them during a layover in Puerto Rico last year, HuffPo reports. The suit alleges that pilots Eric Johnson and Dan Watson approached the two crew staffers and another woman, who also worked for […]
This past October, an off-duty pilot that was in the the cockpit jump seat on a Lion Air flight was able to avert disaster, Bloomberg News reports. Citing two sources familiar with the investigation into the incident, the publication detailed that the off-duty pilot advised the crew to disable the malfunctioning flight system after control of the plane was […]
