Travel chaos struck Birmingham Airport today after the pilot and crew for a flight to Doha got stuck in a lift for more than three hours. The 7.45am Qatar Airways flight to the Quatari capital was unable to take off while firefighters
A January plane crash in Nepal that killed 72 people – including two Americans and two lawful U.S. permanent residents – was likely caused by its pilots mistakenly cutting the power, according to a report by government-appointed investigators released on Thursday. The
A Greek air force pilot was killed Wednesday when his training jet crashed in the countryside, state-run ERT television said. The crash occurred outside an air base near the southern town of Kalamata. The two-seater T-2 aircraft was carrying only one crew
Bob Pardo, who made his mark in Air Force history for using an unorthodox maneuver, Pardo’s Push, to save the lives of his wingmen during a bombing mission during the Vietnam War, has died at 89. Pardo, who died Dec. 5, is
Only those with the eyes of a fighter jet pilot can spot the differences in this festive picture within nine seconds or less. This Christmas brainteaser has five differences and has left puzzlers baffled while trying to complete the game. Created by
Mitsuo Fuchida is one of the most notorious villains in American history. The Japanese pilot, handpicked by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, led the surprise attack on United States forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The date lives in infamy 82 years
A French pilot has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after the plane he was flying struck and decapitated a wingsuit skydiver over southern France in 2018. The pilot, only identified as 64-year-old Alain C, was found guilty on Tuesday following a
This is the moment a pilot was rescued after spending nine hours stranded in alligator-infested waters he’d crash landed into. Firefighters said in a Facebook post that reports of a downed aircraft emerged at around 10.30am on Tuesday in the area of Mack’s
A Chinese pilot came within 10 feet of a US bomber in a dangerous Top Gun-style manoeuvre. A US Indo-Pacific Command report said: “On Oct. 24, 2023, a People’s Republic of China (PRC) J-11 pilot executed an unsafe intercept of a US
Emerson, an Alaska Airlines pilot from Pleasant Hill, California, was initially arrested in Oregon on Sunday night on state counts of attempted murder after the flight crew reported that he attempted to shut down the engines on a Horizon Air flight from Everett, Washington, to