Minutes after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport, a small passenger plane found itself facing an unexpected challenge – landing on a busy highway. Shortly before 1 p.m. Friday, Virginia State Police received reports of an emergency landing in Loudoun County. With nerves of steel and quick thinking, the pilot of the single-engine Cessna … Read more
An American airline passenger reportedly bit a female cabin crew member mid-flight, resulting in an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight destined for Seattle to return to Tokyo, as stated by an airline representative. Flight ANA 118 took off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 9:47 p.m. local time and reversed course just over an hour into … Read more
In an unusual incident, a Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft operated by Polar Airlines found itself on the frozen surface of the Kolyma river near Zyryanka in Russia’s far east. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, was attributed to pilot error by transport prosecutors. The An-24 aircraft, carrying 30 passengers, executed a safe landing on the icy … Read more