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A pilot was arrested on Saturday after he threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi. NBC News reports the pilot, who has been identified as Cory Wayne Patterson, 29, hijacked the plane from the Tupelo Regional Airport around 5:30 a.m. Patterson, who police believe is not a “licensed pilot,” is an employee of […]
If, by chance, you haven’t yet joined the army of HBO Max subscribers and are keen on all things Game of Thrones, then today is a very big day for you. The inaugural episode of the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, has been made available to watch for free via the […]
A new TikTok video shows a Southwest Airlines flight where the pilot was not entirely pleased with some passengers, who were AirDropping him nude photos. The plane was bound for Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when the pilot threatened to go back to the departure gate if the passengers didn’t stop their antics. It’s unclear how many […]
Darren Harrison has opened up about the harrowing experience he went through when he had to land a plane after the pilot passed out. In an appearance on Today, Harrison reflected on how he was able to successfully land the plane despite having no aviation experience. “I knew it was a life or death situation, either […]
Today in movie-scenarios-that-happened-in-real-life, a passenger on a single-engine Cessna 208 was forced to land the plane after its pilot became incapacitated. The harrowing event was retold by Air Traffic Controller and certified flight instructor Robert Morgan, who talked to CNN about how he received a call from a plane flying over the Bahamas whose pilot was unconscious, and […]
Tom Cruise made perhaps the most Tom Cruisiest entrance imaginable at Wednesday’s global premiere event for Top Gun: Maverick. The Joseph Kosinski-directed sequel to the late Tony Scott’s 1986 action classic was launched aboard the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, California. The expectedly star-stacked experience, notably, saw the film’s star and producer arriving on the aircraft […]
A JetBlue pilot was grounded shortly before takeoff from Buffalo Niagara International Airport Wednesday after he appeared to be too drunk to fly, The Buffalo News reports. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, or NFTA, police were called after TSA agents noticed that James Clifton, 52, seemed to be impaired as he passed through security. Clifton was sitting […]
A new video circulating on social media has fueled the extraterrestrial debate. The footage was reportedly captured by a pilot who was flying over the South China Sea at an altitude of 39,000 feet. The video shows three sets of mysterious light formations moving through the clouds near Hong Kong before quickly disappearing. “I don’t know what […]
Hours before announcing a straight-to-series order for the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, HBO buried an untitled GoT spinoff starring Naomi Watts, even after the pilot episode was filmed. Former WarnerMedia chairman Bob Greenblatt spoke with James Andrew Miller for his latest book, Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, about pulling the plug on one failed show and its incredibly expensive pilot, while […]
Though Ludacris was seen manning a plane in an Instagram video back in March, the rapper doesn’t actually have his pilot license—not yet, at least. Luda told Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday that he’s “just as surprised as everyone else.” He continued, “The internet just ran with the fact that I have an official pilot’s license when […]
