Tag Archives: Plane

Passengers Evacuate Smoky Plane on Emergency Chute at Denver Airport  The New York Times Passengers use emergency slides to flee plane fire in US  BBC DIA: American Airlines flight stopped on runway due to ‘maintenance issue,’ says airline company  KDVR Passengers evacuated from plane onto Denver runway after landing gear issue sparked fire and left 1 injured  CNN Passengers exit plane via emergency slide …

Small Plane With 3 Aboard Crashes Off California Coast  The New York Times Search underway for 3 people aboard plane after crash off Pacific Grove coast  KSBW U.S. Coast Guard searches for missing passenger after small airplane crashes in northern California  NBC News Plane carrying 3 crashes off Monterey County coast — 2 found unresponsive  San Francisco Chronicle Deadly plane crash just offshore of …

Grounded after a glow-up. A Texas woman claimed a Spirit Airlines agent refused to let her check in for a flight due to safety concerns from a cosmetic procedure she underwent days earlier. Shataria Banks wasn’t permitted to board her flight at Miami International Airport on July 23 despite her doctor alleging that she had clearance to fly. Shataria Banks …

Two Southwest Airlines flight attendants are being treated for injuries after a passenger jet heading to Las Vegas from southern California took a dramatic plunge shortly after takeoff on Friday, the airline and passengers said. Southwest flight 1496, headed from Burbank to Las Vegas, received two alerts that made the plane climb and then descend, according to a statement from …

2 Crew Members Are Hurt as Southwest Plane Plunges Abruptly After Takeoff  The New York Times Southwest flight abruptly descends to avoid ‘mid-air collision’ with another plane near Burbank airport  ABC7 Los Angeles Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants  BBC Terrified passengers ‘flew out of their seats’ during dramatic Southwest nosedive to avoid mid-air crash  Fox News Southwest Airlines jet dives as a fighter …

A plane that crashed and killed the husband of then-U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, two years ago was overloaded with moose meat and antlers, federal investigators said this week. Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola Jr., 57, was piloting a Piper PA 18-150 Super Cub when it went down in the mountains northeast of St. Mary’s on Sept. 12, 2023. The veteran pilot …

Minutes after takeoff Friday, a Southwest flight leaving Burbank, California, descended after two onboard alerts, injuring two flight attendants and frightening passengers, the airline and people on board said. Southwest did not provide additional details about the alerts. A source familiar with the situation said there was a traffic alert and collision avoidance system alert and invovled a Hawker Hunter …

Juneau, Alaska — A small plane that crashed in 2023 while carrying moose meat for hunters in remote western Alaska, killing the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight for takeoff and encountered drag from a set of antlers mounted outside, federal investigators said in a report released Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its final report …

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A small plane that crashed in 2023 while carrying moose meat for hunters in remote western Alaska, killing the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight for takeoff and encountered drag from a set of antlers mounted outside, federal investigators said in a report released Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its final …

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (KUTV) — A Utah man has been identified as one of the three people killed in a plane crash south of West Yellowstone, Montana. Utah resident Kurt Enoch Robey, 55, and Tennessee residents Rodney Conover, 60, and Madison Conover, 23, died in the crash on Friday, July 18, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office. At about …