Planes
BREAKING NEWS: Air Asia Flight Missing With 162 On Board
Air Asia flight number QZ8501, bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, has reportedly lost control with air traffic control. The missing flight is an Airbus A320-200 with 155 people on board, Reuters reports. The plane lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control on Sunday, Indonesian media said, citing Transport Ministry official Hadi …
BREAKING NEWS: Plane Crash Into House Leaves At Least 3 Dead In Maryland [PHOTOS]
At least three people have been confirmed dead after a plane crashed into a house in Gaithersburg, Maryland. All three were on board the small aircraft, and no one was transported from the scene, a local fire official said. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer couldn’t immediately say whether anyone was in the …
[VIDEO] “YOU’RE ALL SCREWED!” Man Jokes About Having Ebola, Removed From Plane
He didn’t yell “bomb,” but he might as well have. Common sense dictates you might not want to joke that you have Ebola on a crowded airplane several thousand miles in the sky. And yet, as Fox News Latino reported, an unidentified man did just that this week during a flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican …
GOV’T WASTE: US Planes Worth $500M Sold For Scrap In Afghanistan – for only $32,000
A US watchdog is asking why 16 planes bought for the Afghan Air Force, costing almost $500 million, were turned into scrap metal valued at just $32,000. The government wants to know why hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money were wasted on the project. The military transport planes had been sitting at Kabul International Airport …
STRIKE: LaGuardia Workers Refusing to Work In Fear of Ebola-ravaged Countries
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a poll found most Americans want flights banned from Ebola-ravaged areas. Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to LaGuardia began their strike on Wednesday evening. …
$30M bounty offered for the identity of who shot down MH17 in Ukraine
Two months have passed since the Malaysia Airlines plane on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot-down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 with 298 crew and passengers on board who all died in the crash. A preliminary report into the disaster carried out by Dutch investigators and issued on September 9 said …
REPORT: Russian bombers simulating nuclear missile strike against U.S.
A pair of Russian bomber jets reportedly practiced cruise missile attacks against targets in the United States last week, according to a report published on Monday in the Washington Free Beacon. Bill Gertz, a writer for the Beacon, reported that two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying over the Labrador Sea last week in …
Killed ISIS fighter reported to have worked at Minneapolis International Airport
Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second known American to die while fighting alongside Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants, was formerly an employee with a Delta Airlines subsidiary at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Muhumed had a security clearance at the airport, access to the tarmac, and access to planes, as his job was to clean aircraft, …
OBAMA: ‘We need war plan against ISIS by the end of the week’
Top US officials say President Barack Obama wants to decide American strategy for combating extremist group Islamic State’s strongholds in Syria. Yet the administration is still scrambling to understand the goals and limits of potential military action. Top members of the Obama administration have held meetings this week to surmise how expanding a military campaign …