The Airbus A320 of Austrian Airlines flew from Mallorca to Vienna Passengers only realized the extent of the damage after disembarking A passenger plane miraculously landed on Sunday despite hailstones smashing the front of the plane and shattering the cockpit windshield. Austrian Airlines’ Airbus A320 was flying from Mallorca to Vienna when chunks of ice … Read more
A mum lost 12 stone after being fat-shamed on a flight. Jennifer Louise was left “humiliated and embarrassed” when a cabin steward made a comment about her on a return flight from Lanzarote in May 2023. The flight attendant insisted that Jennier’s armrest needed to be lowered as they prepared to land, claiming that weight … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the first Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo in 1968 that showed the planet as a shadowy blue marble from space was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone crashed into the waters off Washington state’s San Juan Islands collapsed. He was 90. His son, … Read more
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s travel email A potential disaster was narrowly averted when a packed passenger plane took off just seconds before it was about to leave the runway due to a software glitch. The Boeing plane, operated by TUI, was taking … Read more
Sue and Murray Stewart reached Bristol Airport in plenty of time for their easyJet flight to Croatia, but a series of delays and ‘total chaos’ saw them miss their flight Murray and Sue Stewart were disappointed after missing their flight to Croatia(No credit) A couple missed their flight after a series of delays and ‘total … Read more
A man reportedly sucked into the running engine of a plane in Amsterdam was an employee who is believed to have climbed in deliberately, Dutch police said. The person who died at Schiphol airport is said to have deliberately climbed into the engine(Michel van Bergen/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) A man who died at an Amsterdam airport is believed … Read more
This is the emotional moment a father met the ‘hero nurse’ who helped save his life when he fell ill on a plane. Steve Skoyles, 65, suffered symptoms of a heart attack while traveling on an Easyjet flight from Alicante in Spain to Newcastle Airport. Stranger David Armstrong, who was also traveling as a passenger … Read more