
Passenger dies or goes missing during flight - little known codes and phrases used by airline crew
Specialists have shed light on the secret codes used by flight crews to discreetly indicate emergencies taking place on planes. Both pilots and cabin …
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What We Know About the Closure of Heathrow Airport
London’s Heathrow Airport was closed for all of Friday, shutting down one of the world’s busiest airports and causing worldwide travel disruptions after it lost power because of a fire nearby. The closure disrupts an important travel hub for Britain, Europe and the world. Daily, an average of more …
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Another regional airline is now on the verge of bankruptcy
A number of airlines are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in 2025. While aviation has always been a risky industry due to the very high cost of …
You Will Never Guess What the Stranded Astronauts Got Paid for Their Trouble
That's it!? During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime …
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Live Updates: London’s Heathrow Airport Halts Operations, Throwing Global Travel Into Disarray
London’s Heathrow Airport was closed early Friday and will remain shut through the rest of the day, bringing one of the world’s busiest airports to a halt after it lost power because of a nearby fire. The fire at an electrical substation in western London quickly disrupted travel across the …
Air traffic controller in Orlando stops Southwest Airlines pilots mistakenly trying to take off on a taxiway
CNN — The pilots of a Boeing 737 started to mistakenly take off from a taxiway at a Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller told them to stop, the Federal Aviation Administration said, announcing it was investigating the incident. Southwest Airlines Flight 3278 was cleared to …