Engine maintenance, fuel contamination, and air traffic control communications. Those are key elements investigators will be focusing on to determine how the Transair cargo plane crashed into the ocean on July 2. We hear from a former NTSB senior air safety investigator who was with the agency for 21 years. Recovering the two black boxes [...]
Of this year's incidents, 75% involve passengers who refuse to wear a mask. As more people return to the skies, the number of unruly passenger incidents onboard planes continues to skyrocket. Last week alone, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported an increase of 150 unruly passenger cases, making it the worst weekly report of the [...]
British billionaire Richard Branson has bought a stake in space tech fund Seraphim Space Investment Trust as part of a 178 million-pound ($246.99 million) initial public offering, London-based Seraphim said on Monday. ($1 = 0.7207 pounds) Airbus SE also participated in the IPO and was among other parties to buy shares of the company, according [...]
A woman who allegedly had a meltdown midflight and tried to open an airplane door was duct-taped to her seat, to the consternation of passengers who saw her as they exited the craft. It happened on an American Airlines flight Friday, TMZ reported. “While in flight from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Charlotte (CLT) on July [...]
Shares of Virgin Galactic slipped on Monday after the company filed to sell up to $500 million in common stock. This follows the commercial spaceflight company’s successful test flight with founder Sir Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic, which trades under the ticker SPCE, fell 17.3% after it filed notice of its stock sale offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]
It will probably be years before we see a wheelchair seat on an airplane. When her wheelchair was severely damaged during her flight on Delta Airlines from Minneapolis to Newark, New Jersey, the model and influencer Bri Scalesse took to TikTok and recorded a video that quickly went viral. "Today my freedom and independence was [...]
Porter Airlines is tapping opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic with a firm order for 30 Embraer E195-E2 jets that will double the Canadian carrier's fleet and allow it to add new routes in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean, Chief Executive Michael Deluce said on Monday. Earlier, Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said Porter was [...]
American Airlines Boeing 737 Max A bodybuilder was not allowed to board her flight at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Thursday because American Airlines crew found her clothing offensive, according to media reports. Deniz Saypinar is a professional bodybuilder from Turkey. On Thursday, she posted on her Instagram story to her nearly 1 million [...]
British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago. Branson, one of six Virgin Galactic Holding Inc employees [...]
With company owner and uber-adventurer Sir Richard Branson on board, Virgin Galactic today announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space, completing the company’s fourth rocket-powered spaceflight and opening the door to space tourism. Today’s flight was the 22nd test flight of VSS Unity and the first test flight with a full crew in the cabin, [...]
Delta Air Lines, a decade ago, became known as a savvy acquirer of used aircraft. However, as its fleet aged and its cash flow surged toward the middle of the past decade, Delta began ordering brand-new jets in increasing numbers. By late 2019, management was talking about a new fleet strategy focused on fleet simplification [...]
After nearly two decades of overly optimistic forecasts, technical challenges, a tragic setback and a determined recovery, Richard Branson, the globe-trotting media mogul and founder of Virgin Galactic, plans to rocket into space Sunday, beating fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos to the punch by nine days. In a high-stakes display of confidence in Virgin's sleek rocket-powered spaceplane, Branson will launch with [...]
