At a California flight school, a pilot and an accomplice kidnapped a Chinese student and tried to deport him before they were captured by the police. Redding City Police responded to a call for the alleged abduction of Chinese student Tianshu Shi at 7:18 am at the 1400th Trudie Trail block. ...
The Chinese airliner A-319 made an emergency landing after the windshield in the cockpit snapped at an altitude of almost 10 km. At the same time, the co-pilot was almost pulled out by the air stream of the cockpit, but he was saved. The crew commander Liu Chongjian reported that ...
Pilot Tammy Joe Schultz, who safely landed a Southwest Airlines plane after an engine explosion and cabin depressurization, was not originally supposed to fly this flight. The tragic flight on April 17 was supposed to be piloted by Schultz's husband Dean, who also works for Southwest Airlines, but he ...
Only about 5% of commercial pilots in the United States are women. Natasha Shcheglova is one of them. Originally from Magadan, Natasha came to America almost 30 years ago and in a short time was able to fulfill her dream - to take to the skies every day.…
TV Channel 78 published a transcript of the last negotiations of the An-148 crew, which crashed on February 11. An abnormal situation did develop aboard the AN-148: the speed sensors began to show different values. According to preliminary data, this happened due to a banal mistake: the co-pilot forgot to turn on the heating of the corresponding sensor. And then,…
Southwest Airlines on Wednesday completed its first flight with an all-female crew, the carrier said on Twitter. They took a photo to prove it. Women pilots are a rarity in the aviation industry. According to the nonprofit Women in Aviation, only 6,7% of pilots are female. According to Southwest Airlines, the company's former president, Colleen Barrett, was the first...
One of the pilots on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark on August 22 put many passengers under stress immediately after boarding the plane, saying they would fly through "terrible storms, including tornadoes." The atmosphere on board was already tense ...
An altercation between a Delta Air Lines pilot and a flight attendant caused a two-hour flight delay at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Monday 24 July. According to the New York Daily News, the 54-year-old pilot and the 26-year-old flight attendant began an argument shortly before the plane was supposed to ...
Recently, a photograph was discovered in the National Archives that could be the key to solving the mystery of the missing American pilot Amelia Earhart. Earhart, the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic. She disappeared without a trace, flying on her plane on July 2, 1937. The USA declared Earhart dead ...
While landing at the airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an American Airlines co-pilot died. A few minutes before landing, the captain called for an ambulance, but it was too late. Flight 29 departed from Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, Texas on March 1353. About 15:45 ...