63 m. ago Devastation in Crete as mass evacuations ordered for hotels and homes amid huge wildfire

Forest land was scorched while a major emergency response scrambled

Society

20 h. ago Oxygen masks deploy as Japan Airlines flight plunges 26,000ft before emergency landing

Passengers reportedly panic as oxygen masks drop from ceiling

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20 h. ago Japan Airlines flight makes violent plunge before emergency landing

Passengers reportedly panic as oxygen masks drop from ceiling

Politics

28 h. ago Passengers pen goodbye letters during plane's 26,000 ft drop, oxygen masks deployed

A Japan Airlines flight suddenly dropped from 36,000 feet to 10,500 feet in 10 minutes on Monday, and passengers said they feared they might die during the terrifying ordeal

Politics

4 d. ago Conor Coady to Rangers transfer timeline emerges as Ibrox side in talks for 2 more deals after landing defender

Talks have been ongoing with the Foxes and there is a willingness on the 32-year-old’s part to move to Ibrox

Economics

5 d. ago Saudia Airlines tragedy: Crew member dies aboard Jeddah to London flight, diverted to Cairo

Saudia Airlines tragedy: Crew member dies aboard Jeddah to London flight, diverted to Cairo  Times of India

Events

6 d. ago ‘Pop, pop, pop’: AA flight with smoking engine sparked concern at takeoff, says plane mechanic who was onboard

Two aircraft mechanics were aboard the American Airlines flight that returned to Las Vegas on Wednesday due to an engine issue.

Politics

6 d. ago Bantock: The Seal Woman album review – Celtic folk opera that never quite gets its head above water

Howard/Carby/Scottish Opera/Andrews(Retrospect Opera, two CDs)Granville Bantock’s story of a Selkie emerging from the sea is a century-old curio whose beauty has faded over the yearsExcept perhaps in Birmingham, where his memory is still cherished for what he did for the city’s music, including co-founding the CBSO, Granville Bantock (1868-1946) has slipped quietly into the margins of 20th-century British music. But as well as being an academic and conductor, Bantock was a prolific composer, with a work list including four symphonies, five concertos and nine operas, of which the last, the “Celtic folk opera” The Seal Woman, is easily the best remembered now.The premiere of The Seal Woman in 1924 was the Birmingham Repertory theatre’s first production; librettist Marjory Kennedy-Fraser took the main role of the Cailleach, whose dreams and visions tell the story of the Selkie, seal-people who emerge from the sea every seven years to live on land, shedding their skins to take human for...

Culture

6 d. ago American Airlines plane forced into emergency landing after catching fire mid

Flight 1665 took off from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for Charlotte, North Carolina at 8.11am local time on Wednesday

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7 d. ago American Airlines flight forced to turn around as witnesses see ‘flames and smoke’ coming from the plane

An American Airlines plane made an emergency return to the Las Vegas airport Wednesday morning after passengers and local observers saw smoke and flames coming from the engine.

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7 d. ago Plane forced to make emergency landing at major airport as engine 'catches fire'

Grim booming sounds were reportedly heard in Las Vegas where a plane is understood to have been forced into an emergency landing

Events

7 d. ago Haunting last video shows Brazilian dancer, 26, smiling with her friend before plunging to her death in volcano crater in Indonesia

Tourist Juliana Marins, 26, plunged more than 1,000ft from the ridge of Mount Rinjani on Saturday and was trapped there for almost four days.

Culture

8 d. ago Storm season triggers unexpected connections and lots of surprises for airline passengers

Plane Talk: When flying goes wrong it can sometimes go right – but mostly doesn’t

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8 d. ago Tragedy as Brazilian dancer, 26, who plunged 1,000ft down Indonesian volcano is found dead after frantic four

Juliana Marins, 26, was trekking up Mount Rinjani, the second largest volcano in Indonesia, when she slipped and fell from a hiking trail early morning on June 21

Events

8 d. ago Air India chaos as five passengers and two staff fall ill on flight from London

Seven people, including both passengers and flight crew, were taken ill during an Air India flight from London's Heathrow Airport on Monday, the airline has confirmed

Events

9 d. ago Chaos erupts as a passenger is REMOVED from a Virgin Australia flight for a trivial reason that sparked a tense altercation with airline crew

A woman has been hauled off a flight from Perth to Melbourne after a bizarre stoush with cabin crew.

Events

9 d. ago Air India flight from Birmingham diverted after 'bomb threat' on board

After the bomb threat was discovered, the flight made an emergency landing at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia where security agencies conducted a full search of the aircraft

Events

9 d. ago All hell breaks loose as a passenger is REMOVED from a Virgin Australia flight for a trivial reason that sparked a tense altercation with airline crew

A woman has been hauled off a flight from Perth to Melbourne after a bizarre stoush with cabin crew.

Politics

1 week ago Flight tracker shows airlines avoiding Middle East airspace after US bombs Iran

A flight tracker shows airlines avoiding Middle East airspace after the US launched an attack on three nuclear sites in Iran.

Events

1 week ago Jet met by fire engines after making emergency landing at Manchester Airport

The Icelandair flight from Paris to Keflavik was diverted after declaring an emergency while in UK airspace

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