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Pilot Screw-Up Almost Flips Jet
 Pilot Screw-Up Almost Flips Jet 
Sep 28, 2011 2:27 PM CDT

Pilot Screw-Up Almost Flips Jet

He mistook the rudder trim nob for the cockpit door lock

(Newser) - This will go down in the annals of wacky pilot screw-ups: An All Nippon Airways passenger jet rolled over 131.7 degrees earlier this month—putting it almost belly-up—because a pilot accidentally turned the rudder trim knob instead of the one unlocking the cabin door, Japan’s Transport Safety...

Wing Walker Plunges to His Death

Stuntman Todd Green slips as he reaches for helicopter in Michigan air show

(Newser) - A horrified crowd watched yesterday as a Michigan wing walker plunged to his death during an air show stunt. Todd Green fell some 200 feet at the Air National Guard Base in Selfridge near Detroit as he attempted to grab onto a helicopter hovering over the plane. "I thought...

US Military Loses Contact With Hypersonic Test Glider

Second HTV-2 flight appears to end much like the first

(Newser) - An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for US defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early today, but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said. There was no immediate information on how much of...

Jet Smashes Smaller Plane at Boston Airport

At least one person injured

(Newser) - A pair of planes crashed at Boston’s Logan Airport last night, injuring at least one woman. A large Delta 767 with 204 passengers was preparing to take off when its wing sliced through the tail of a smaller plane on a taxiway, the Boston Globe reports. Dozens of emergency...

Flier Tried to Open Jet's Door in Suicide Attempt

Passengers subdued him before he did any damage

(Newser) - A man subdued as he tried to open the door of a passenger jet mid-flight wasn't trying to commit an act of terrorism—he was trying to kill himself, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Reynel Alcaide, 34, pushed a flight attendant out of the way and began banging on...

Crew, Fliers Tackle Rageit Almurisi, Who Was Banging on Cockpit Door of American Airlines Flight 1561
Crew, Fliers Tackle Man Banging on Cockpit Door
incident No. 3
May 9, 2011 8:25 AM CDT

Crew, Fliers Tackle Man Banging on Cockpit Door

It's the third such incident in one day on US planes

(Newser) - Yesterday was a day of airplane security disturbances : In the third incident reported so far, crew members and passengers wrestled a man to the ground after he started pounding on the plane's cockpit door. Rageit Almurisi, 28, brushed past a flight attendant on last night's flight while screaming...

Cracks Found in 3 More Southwest Planes

Review of 79 other Boeing 737-300s to be completed tomorrow

(Newser) - If you were terrified by the story of the five-foot-long hole that opened up in a Southwest plane Friday, you may not want to read further: The airline found small, subsurface cracks in three more planes that are similar to the cracks that may have played a role in that...

Yes, Your Phone Could Mess With the Plane

 Yes, Your Phone 
 Could Mess With 
 the Plane 
in case you missed it
Jan 22, 2011 12:02 PM CST

Yes, Your Phone Could Mess With the Plane

Experts suspect gadgets in a number of incidents

(Newser) - Show of hands: How many people actually turn off all their electronic devices on an airplane? Well, maybe you should next time, because experts say they might—just might—actually interfere with the flight. “It’s a good news-bad news thing,” one Boeing engineer tells the New York ...

Guy With 'Suspicious' Bagel on Plane Arrested

Funny-looking package didn't actually contain a bomb

(Newser) - A group of passengers on a US Airways, doing their country proud and keeping themselves safe from terrorists, reported a "suspicious package" to the crew of a Boston-to-DC flight on Monday. Apparently, the plastic bag was making weird noises! When the crew confronted bag owner Ognjen Milatovic, the 35-year-old...

Guy on Plane Decks Kid Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone
Guy on Plane Decks Kid
Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jan 2, 2011 10:56 AM CST

Guy on Plane Decks Kid Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone

The 68-year-old 'felt he was protecting the entire plane'

(Newser) - Next time the flight attendants ask you to turn off your cell phone before takeoff, you better do it … because if you don’t, the 68-year-old guy sitting next to you just might punch you. Russell Miller, accused of doing just that, was arrested upon landing last week and...

Russian Jet Explosion Kills 3, Injures 43

Fire began in an engine before takeoff

(Newser) - A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded today, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said. Most of the passengers and crew were evacuated before the explosion, though people on...

Plane Crashes in Utah Neighborhood; Pilot Survives

FAA looking into cause of accident

(Newser) - A pilot is in critical condition following a fiery plane crash in Utah, and investigators are trying to figure out what happened. The Cessna 210 single-engine plane went down in a residential neighborhood last night, ripping into pieces as it fell. Pilot Clayton Roop, 46, had been cleared for landing...

Did Dead NC Teen Fall Out of a Plane?

Delvonte Tisdale may have been a stowaway, unhappy at home

(Newser) - There is a "remote" possibility that a teen whose battered remains were found near Boston's Logan International Airport died after falling from a plane's landing gear, authorities say. Delvonte Tisdale was last seen in his North Carolina home Nov. 14, and never returned home from school the following day....

Teen Stowaway Survives Flight in Landing Gear

Russian foster kid ran away from Siberian home

(Newser) - A 17-year-old Russian ran away from his Siberian foster home in dramatic fashion today, crawling into the landing gear compartment of an Antonov An-24 turboprop plane. Wearing only a light coat, the boy survived a 50-minute flight in temperatures as low as -22 to the regional center of Irkutsk, the...

Woman Yemen Arrested Is a Med Student
 Woman Yemen 
 Arrested Is a 
 Med Student 
Bomb Plot
Oct 31, 2010 6:43 AM CDT

Woman Yemen Arrested Is a Med Student

Lawyer worries she was set up; US eyes Qaeda bombmaker

(Newser) - The woman arrested in connection with the Yemen bomb plot , whom authorities allege mailed the packages, is a 22-year-old med student and daughter of a petroleum engineer, reports the BBC . The woman's lawyer says he's worried his client was set up, and US officials, citing the weapons' level of sophistication,...

Police Suspect Hoax in Airline Bomb Scare

Canadian woman phoned in tip about male passenger

(Newser) - The bomb scare that required a Pakistani passenger jet with 273 people aboard to make an emergency landing in Stockholm was apparently a hoax. Authorities diverted the plane, which took off from Toronto, after getting a tip that a man aboard had explosives. He turned out to be clean and...

Leonardo-Inspired Pedal Plane Flaps Wings and Flies

Canadian grad student provides the power

(Newser) - Leonardo da Vinci drew the first man-powered ornithopter over 5 centuries ago, and the concept has finally become reality. A University of Toronto engineering PhD candidate took the very flight in an aircraft called "Snowbird," which has a 105-foot wingspan and weighs only 94 pounds. He pedaled to...

Newborn Found in Airplane Trash
Newborn Found in
Airplane Trash
Sep 13, 2010 2:05 AM CDT

Newborn Found in Airplane Trash

Mom gave birth in plane bathroom

(Newser) - A newborn baby is doing well after he was found in the trash aboard a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Manila. "After he was cleaned, he let out a soft cry," said an airport nurse who checked out the infant. "He was healthy, his vital signs...

Latest Airplane Terror Scare May Be False Alarm

Feds don't think Yemeni men were planning an attack

(Newser) - It looks like that supposed dry run for a terror attack can be chalked up to a series of harmless coincidences, federal sources tell the Washington Post . The two Yemeni men who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam before being arrested didn't even know each other before the flight. "It...

NY-Bound Flight Grounded After Hijack Scare

Threatening call deemed 'non-credible'

(Newser) - American Airlines Flight 24 from San Francisco to New York was grounded last night after a caller threatened to hijack the plane. Authorities now say the threat was "non-credible," though the "suspicious male" behind the scare has not been identified, notes CNN . After the call, the plane...

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