shanghaidaily.com reported that at least three domestic flights to or from Changsha in central China were diverted after receiving hoax bomb calls around noon today. Flight JD5662 of Capital Airlines from Changsha in Hunan Province to Hangzhou first reported a hoax bomb call around noon some 30 minutes after the Airbus 319 took off. The airline then diverted the aircraft to land at the nearby Nanchang Airport in Jiangxi Province. Read Article
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According to MSN News, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it’s investigating whether dense fog played a role in the deadly crash of a small plane at a Tennessee airport, where the wreckage went undiscovered for several hours. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane crashed sometime after 3 a.m. CDT Tuesday at Nashville International Airport. […]
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A reader recently paid $600 for the privilege of staying home. That was the accumulated cost of canceling tickets on a Delta flight for her family of three. The airline, along with other major carriers, raised its change fees to $200 per ticket last spring. The three tickets that cost her $500 apiece turned into […]
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dailymail.co.uk reported that Millions of commuters have been left stranded and warned not to travel today unless it is essential, with at least 40 railway lines blocked, roads left impassable and hundreds of flights cancelled because of the most dangerous storm for years. The Environment Agency has 19 flood warnings and 147 flood alerts in […]
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NBC News reports that two Delta Airlines flights made unplanned landings Monday night in unrelated incidents. A Delta flight from Atlanta made an emergency landing at Tri-Cities Airport in Washington state after a false alarm with one of the plane’s cargo bay sensors on Monday night. The plane was carrying 183 passengers to Seattle when […]
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The BBC reports that dozens of people were killed in southern Laos when a plane crashed into the Mekong River. Foreigners from some 10 countries including seven from France were among the dead, as well as Laotian nationals. The plane belonging to state-run Lao Airlines crashed in bad weather just before it was due to […]
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NBC News reports that an apparent dry ice bomb explosion in a Los Angeles International Airport employee restroom caused flights to be halted from one terminal for several hours Sunday night, officials said. There were no injuries or damage in the blast, which happened at about 9.30 p.m. local time (6.30 p.m. ET) near Terminal […]
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ottawacitizen.com reported – The Syrian government’s shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and launchers could imperil civil aviation if they fall into the hands of terror groups, according to an independent report examining the global proliferation of portable missiles. The report released Friday by the Federation of American Scientists, a prominent Washington group that focuses on issues of […]
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An American expatriate was ripped off of valuables on a flight to Quito Ecuador on October 10, 2013 SUBMITTED BY U.S. EXPAT RESIDING IN QUITO ECUADOR 1.The passenger changed planes in Lima Peru and boarded flight 2588 after flying overnight from Los Angeles in route to Quito, Ecuador. 2. Flight was delayed and idled on […]
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The Local Spain reports that twenty-nine passengers watched on in shock on Saturday as an EasyJet flight took off from the southern Spanish city of Malaga without them. The passengers on Easyjet flight EZY6056 from Malaga to Bristol in the UK were still waiting to board when their flight took off. They were just “metres […]
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