LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Latest on the fatal wildfires in Portugal (all times local): 8:35 p.m. A spokesman for Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency says none of the planes fighting deadly wildfires in the center of the country are missing. The update from agency spokesman Fausto Coutinho came Tuesday amid conflicting reports from the blazes … Continue reading
by Troy White A violent passenger incident on a United Airlines flight happened just a month after the new CEO Oscar Munoz was named U.S. Communicator of the Year. Later, after the incident, Oscar Munoz apologized to the public for having to readjust customers, instead of telling the man who was dragged from his seat … Continue reading
SYDNEY (AP) â A ship involved with the deep-sea sonar search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is being fitted with a drone that will examine several sonar contacts of interest on the remote seabed west of Australia, officials said Wednesday. None of the sonar contacts exhibit the characteristics of a typical aircraft debris field, … Continue reading
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Two people have been injured after a small plane crash near Williamsburg. The James City County Fire Department said units were sent Saturday morning to the crash site about 100 yards south of the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport. The single-engine plane was upside down, leaking fuel. While the passenger was able to get … Continue reading
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A solar-powered airplane has taken off from the Ohio hometown of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright on the latest leg of its journey around the world. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 took off from Dayton International Airport just after 4 a.m. Wednesday with a destination of Lehigh Valley International … Continue reading
French ship to join hunt for EgyptAir jet’s black boxes CAIRO (AP) — The French navy said Monday, May 23, that one of its ships has joined the search for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, focusing especially on the hunt for its flight recorders, as questions remain over what caused the Airbus 320 to crash … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A woman has been cited after officials say she tried to bring a loaded gun on a plane at the Norfolk International Airport. Multiple media outlets report the incident happened Thursday morning. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the woman was passing through a security checkpoint when an X-ray machine … Continue reading
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Mozambican sandbank where a possible piece of a missing Malaysian airliner was found is in waters with treacherous currents and is not normally visited by tourists, a hotel owner said Friday. Tony Manna, who owns a beachfront hotel in the Mozambican town of Vilankulo, said American adventurer Blaine Gibson was a … Continue reading
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis says even popes need women and can sustain “healthy, holy” friendships with them. Francis was asked en route home from Mexico on Wednesday about reports of a close friendship between St. John Paul II and a philosopher, Anna Teresa Tymieniecka, that emerged from their correspondence. Officials at … Continue reading
WEST POINT, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police say a pilot was not injured when his single-engine airplane crashed in King and Queen County. Sgt. Stephan Vick says the crash occurred about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday about a quarter of a mile west of the West Point Regional Airport. Vick says pilot Christopher P. Strasser of … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — An F-16 pilot killed when he crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during training did not go through the proper training to begin flying the jets again after a nearly 20-year hiatus, the Air Force says. Matthew J. LaCourse of Panama City Beach, Florida, became disoriented while attempting to intercept another … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The 157 passengers aboard British Airways Flight 2276 were settled into their seats for the 10-hour flight from Las Vegas to London when a loud boom rocked the aircraft. Smoke and ash started pouring out of the plane’s left side engine, which had caught fire. Those aboard safely fled down emergency … Continue reading
PARIS (AP) — The remains of all 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be turned over to their families for burial now that investigators have completed the process of identifying them. Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin said Tuesday that death certificates for everyone aboard the doomed Airbus A320 jet have … Continue reading
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is marking the fifth anniversary of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 members of his presidential entourage on a visit to Russia, the worst catastrophe to strike the Polish state since World War II and an event that deepened historical strains between the two Slavic neighbors. … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Federal investigators say a pilot reported turbulence before a small plane crashed while trying to land at Norfolk International Airport. The pilot and two passengers were killed in the crash on March 3. A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board says the Mooney M20F was flying from Palatka, Florida, to Suffolk … Continue reading
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