The nose of the plane was ripped off Pilots have been praised after they managed to safely land an airplane that went through a major hail storm which caused significant damage to the aircraft. Austrian Airlines flight OS434 was flying from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Vienna, Austria, on June 9 when it hit a “thunderstorm […]
1 year ago
Recordings of the tragic final moments were retrieved from the wreckage. On 1st June 2009, Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people onboard. The cause of the tragic incident was attributed to a mix of technical failure made worse by a […]
1 year ago
He had been a pilot for 25 years An airline pilot died in the bathroom on a flight from Miami to Chile with 271 passengers aboard. Captain Ivan Andaur, 56, began feeling unwell three hours into the LATAM Airlines flight from Florida to Santiago, which left Miami at 10.11pm on Monday 14 August. He then […]
2 years ago
‘That will kill us!’ A passenger in a helicopter tour was scolded by the pilot after they grabbed a lever in the cockpit. A video show’s the pilot grabbing the passenger’s wrist and screaming “No! That will kill us!” Cherlin Bijlsma, 27, from the Netherlands was on holiday travelling around the West Coast of the […]
2 years ago
Content warning: Some people may find the video below distressing
2 years ago
‘I’m offended for you’ A pilot has expressed her annoyance after a gate agent at an airport assumed she was a flight attended – and not a pilot. And apparently it wasn’t a one-off either. Sabrina Johnson vented her anger about the incident on TikTok where it has been viewed 2.6m times. “Gate agent looked […]
3 years ago