Flight Mishap | featured news

United says Sandy cut Oct. revenue by $90 million

United Airlines

United Airlines says Superstorm Sandy cut its October revenue by about $90 million as it was forced to cancel almost 5,300 flights.

 

Philly love triangle leads to plane scare, arrests

A love triangle is what police are blaming for a scare that led to an aborted flight and a man being arrested twice within about 12 hours.

 

Plane evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport

Authorities at the Cologne-Bonn airport say 11 people have been injured after smoke filled the cabin of a Turkish airliner.

 

Thousands stuck as German airline crew strike

A strike by flight attendants on German airline Lufthansa disrupted hundreds of flights on Friday, leading to long lines of stranded passengers at Germany's biggest airport.

 

Tropical Storm Isaac grounds hundreds of flights

American Airlines

Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights as Tropical Storm Isaac lashed southeastern Florida Sunday, with service not expected to resume fully until late Monday. The airports in Miami and Fort Lauderdale were hit the hardest, cancelling 589 flights - the vast majority of the 742 U.S. flights grounded overall because of the storm as of Sunday afternoon, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware.

 

Airbuses suffer cockpit power failure, await fixes

United Airlines

As United Flight 731 climbed out of Newark with 107 people aboard, the pilot and first officer were startled to find screens that display crucial navigational information were blank or unreadable and radios were dead.

 

Blown plane tire forces emergency landing at JFK

Delta Airlines Emergency Landing

A Delta Air Lines connecting flight out of Boston made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport Monday when the plane's front tire blew shortly after takeoff, officials say.

 

Needles found in sandwiches on 4 Delta flights

Delta Airlines

Delta Air Lines Inc. and the FBI are trying to figure out how needles got into turkey sandwiches served aboard four flights from Amsterdam. One passenger was injured.

 

Delta flight declared safe, but mystery about objects lingers

Delta Airlines

An "abundance of caution" prompted the turnaround of a Delta flight back to New York late Thursday after someone discovered strange objects in one of the jet's bathrooms, the airline said, but investigators determined there were no explosives or threatening devices on the plane.

 

Man says TSA agent spilled grandfather's ashes

An Indiana man says a TSA agent opened a jar carrying his grandfather's ashes and spilled about a third of them onto the floor.

 

Subscribe to this RSS topic: Syndicate content