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The Feds Cannot Stop You From Tossing Live Turkeys Out Of An Airplane But...
The annual, reasonably disgraceful tradition of an “anonymous” pilot dropping live turkeys from hundreds of feet in the air in Yellville, Arkansas, continued this fall, with several birds dropped on...
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Watch These Daredevil Wingsuit Flyers Land in a Flying Plane
Because jumping off a mountain with just a pair of thin fabric wings underneath your arms isn’t already dangerous enough, professional wingsuit flyers Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet decided to do that and...
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A Computer Error Let Every American Airlines Pilot Take Christmas Off and Now...
Traveling during the holidays is already a nightmare, but for people flying American Airlines during the last two weeks in December, things may have just gotten a whole lot worse. Read more...
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The Millennium Falcon Is The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Of Star Wars
Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars movies is about as recognizable as Darth Vader or a lightsaber. It’s a smuggling ship, hot rod and plot device all rolled into one. After all, it’s the...
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United Airlines Finds Way to Cut Costs That Doesn't Involve Booting...
Switching its in-flight magazine Hemisphere to a lighter variety of paper that saved an ounce a copy has saved United Airlines 170,000 gallons of fuel a year, the L.A. Times reported on Saturday,...
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Woman Flushes Her Emotional Support Hamster Down Airport Toilet and I Have So...
Belen Aldecosea used to have a dwarf hamster that served as her emotional support animal. Then she tried to fly Spirit, which would not let her hamster on the plane. Then she claims a Spirit employee...
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Russian An-148 Jet Crashes After Takeoff From Moscow, Killing At Least 71 People
A Russian An-148 regional jet airliner carrying at least 71 people crashed after takeoff from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, with authorities saying everyone on board was killed, the Wall Street Journal...
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Chinese Citizens With Bad 'Social Credit' to Be Blocked From Taking Planes...
China’s terrifying “social credit” system isn’t planned to be fully implemented until 2020, but we’re already seeing facets of it being put in place. In May, people who have committed acts of “serious...
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Airbus Wants to Stuff a Bunch of Comfy Beds Into a Plane's Cargo Hold for...
Airbus apparently didn’t get the memo that air travel is only supposed to get more cramped and uncomfortable year after year. Instead of designing even tinier seats, the company has revealed plans to...
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One Dead After Engine on Southwest Airlines Flight Explodes, Woman Almost...
Southwest Airlines flight 1380 from New York to Dallas had to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia today. One of the plane’s engines reportedly exploded, breaking a window and causing a woman to...
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The Pilot Who Saved That Southwest Flight Is A Badass (Updated)
Tammie Jo Shults, reportedly one of the pilots responsible for landing the Southwest Airlines flight 1380 that experienced an engine explosion earlier today, was also one of the first women pilots in...
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Report: Metal Fatigue May Explain Catastrophic 737 Engine Explosion on...
National Transportation Safety Board investigators have possibly found a major clue as to why a Boeing 737 engine exploded, sucking 43-year-old passenger Jennifer Riordan partially out of a window...
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Boeing Loses $20 Billion in Contracts After President Trump Violates Iran Deal
President Trump announced yesterday that he was unilaterally pulling the U.S. out of the so-called Iran Deal, an international agreement that lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for the cessation of...
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Search For Flights By Legroom With This Chrome Extension
On my 11-hour flight from London to San Francisco last week I was seated next to a father and son that were both over six feet tall. At 5’6” my knees were tapping the back of the chair in front of me....
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Woman Says Poop Fell From Plane and Into Her Sunroof, Splattering Her Face...
A woman in Kelowna, British Columbia, says she has pink eye after human feces fell from the sky and through her sunroof, hitting her in the face. Read more...
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Government Researchers Say It's Only a 'Matter of Time' Until a Commercial...
Here’s a fun thing to think about as you plan your next vacation: researchers at a number of government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security believe that a cyberattack against an...
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FBI Warns of 'Alarming' Increase in In-Flight Sexual Assaults
Reports of in-flight sexual assaults committed by passengers against passengers are going up by double-digit margins, according to federal crime statistics, and it’s unclear why.Read more...
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Vaping Pilot Trying to Hide E-Cig Cloud Accidentally Sends Passenger Flight...
An Air China flight crew had to enact emergency protocols during a flight from Hong Kong to the city of Dalian on Tuesday, all because a co-pilot tried to sneak in a vape break.Read more...
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There Are Bed Bugs in Airplanes Because We Live in Hell Now
Air travel is arguably the worst. There are long lines, airport food is somehow perpetually horrific, everyone is grumpy, someone is always late, and who the hell decided to bring a cranky baby on a...
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U.S. Airlines Are Changing How Their Websites Refer to Taiwan Under Threat of...
The mainland Chinese government has demanded U.S. airlines change their websites “to reflect China’s claim on the island territory” of Taiwan, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, and they pretty much plan...
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