Ask The Pilot does a good job reviewing the details of the KLM-Pan Am collision that killed 583 people 30 years ago last week in Tenerife, Canary Islands. You can read the article for all the details, but a freakish series of events took place that led to the KLM 747 heading down the runway [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: 30th Anniversary of the Worst Airplane CrashA Delta flight from Cincinnati to Honolulu was diverted to San Francisco after a woman had a meltdown onboard. By "meltdown" I mean she smoked in the lavatory, got belligerent when confronted about it, then punched the pilot. The airlines tend to frown upon that kind of behavior. The passenger was removed at SFO and [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Flight Diverted After Woman Smokes, Punches PilotThere’s no good way to say this, so I’m going to just come out with it:
A soldier from Fiji was arrested after he urinated on a Japanese woman during a flight on Air Pacific from Tokyo to Nadi, Fiji. No reason was given for his actions. But really, what possible reason could there have been?
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Zoom, a Canadian/British low fare airline, has received preliminary approval to launch flights between London Gatwick and New York’s JFK airport beginning this June. For now, though, the airline can only sell seats in the UK, but it’ll just be a matter of time before they can sell seats from the US. While this route [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Budget Airline to Launch London – New York FlightsThe FCC has heard both sides of the onboard cellphone and debate and has sided with the quiet side: the agency has decided (for now) that cellphones cannot be used while an airplane is in flight in the US. This is good news if you dreaded the idea of sitting next to some middle management [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: It’s Official: No Cell Phones on US AircraftThe OTR offices are closed for the holiday, but in honor of my people’s exodus across a desert, I thought I’d post Google’s suggestions for how to drive from Chicago to London (hint: it involves swimming).
(Thanks to Zach for the heads up).
A pilot for Virgin Atlantic was arrested at Heathrow on Saturday morning because he was drunk. More specifically, he was pulled from the pilot seat as he was about to fly to New York. THAT was the problem. Not the drunk part alone. After all, they have a bar on Virgin’s planes. But he decided [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Virgin Atlantic Pilot Drunk