The Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet that crashed in Indonesia on Monday flew erratically the previous evening and its air speed readings were unreliable, according to an accident investigator and a flight-tracking website. According to data from FlightR...
When Maynard Jackson introduced affirmative action as mayor of Atlanta in 1973, it “constituted a political revolution in the heart of the south”, according to his 2003 obituary in the New York Times. “Seemingly overnight, it transformed Atlanta int...
The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered the inspection of 220 jet engines after investigators said a broken fan blade touched off an engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight, shattering a window and killing a passenger. The order,...
In an audio recording of the exchange between air traffic controllers and a Southwest Airlines flight, a crew member is heard to say the plane needs to slow down and reports that there is a hole in the plane and 'someone went out'. A woman died afte...
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More than 100 passengers have been stranded at Stuttgart airport after a co-pilot was found drunk in the cockpit just before takeoff. The airline, TAP Air Portugal, apologised after having to cancel the flight “due to the pilot’s incapacity”. The fl...
Tougher rules on night flights and keeping costs to passengers down are needed before parliament should approve Heathrow’s third runway, MPs have told the government. The transport select committee said it believed the London hub airport’s expansion...
A Bangladeshi passenger plane crashed as it attempted to land on Monday at Kathmandu airport in Nepal. It was not clear if there were fatalities, but clouds of thick, dark smoke could be seen rising above the hilltop airport, which was immediately s...
At least two dead and three in hospital after Eurocopter AS350 comes down into New York City waterway At least two people have died and three are in hospital after a helicopter carrying six people crashed in New York City’s East river. A Fe...