3 d. ago Delta flight has near miss with Air Force jet after takeoff in close call at Reagan National Airport

The Delta flight, with 137 people on board, had just departed for Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota , when it received notification of a nearby aircraft.

Transport

5 d. ago Orphaned skater Maxim Naumov reveals parents' haunting final message before they were killed in DC plane crash

Married Russian skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the 67 people who died when an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter midair.

Events

6 d. ago More than 270,000 passenger journeys were affected by Heathrow shutdown

The majority of people disrupted had their flights cancelled, diverted or delayed on Friday March 21.

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7 d. ago 'Most annoying' thing people do at airport while waiting for Ryanair flight

A woman has taken to social media to share what she thinks is the most annoying thing people do while waiting for a flight - but some people have defended the behaviour

Transport

8 d. ago Families gather at site of Germanwings plane crash to mark 10 years since tragedy

All 150 people on board were killed when a Germanwings flight crashed in the French Alps on 24 March 2015.

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8 d. ago Families of victims mark 10 years since Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps

Hundreds of victims' families are commemorating the 10th anniversary of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps, which killed all 150 people on board

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1 week ago Heathrow closure: airport plans to resume some flights today and hopes for full Saturday service

First services will be repatriation flights with people still told not to travel to the airport unless advised to do so by airlineCounter-terror police leading fire inquiryTell us: have you been affected by London’s Heathrow airport closure?Airlines’ carefully choreographed networks depend on airplanes and crews being in specific locations at specific times. Dozens of air carriers will have to hurriedly reconfigure their networks to move planes and crews around after the Heathrow closure.“The other question is, ‘What will airlines do to deal with the backlog of passengers?’”, said travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt with Atmosphere Research Group. “It’s going to be a chaotic couple of days.” Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago Full list of Heathrow Airport flights cancelled following fire 

At least 1,357 flights have been cancelled, diverted or delayed and people are being advised not to make journeys to the airport.

Society

1 week ago Ryanair issue flights update with people urged to act quickly

The airline shared an update earlier on Friday

Politics

2 w. ago American Airlines plane catches fire in Denver after emergency landing

Twelve people taken to hospital with minor injuries after flight forced to divert about 30 minutes after takeoffAn American Airlines flight heading from Colorado Springs to Dallas-Fort Worth was forced to divert about 30 minutes after takeoff to make an emergency landing at Denver on Thursday evening, whereupon one of the plane’s engines dramatically caught on fire on the tarmac.Passengers were swiftly forced to evacuate, including via wing and emergency slide, and could be seen running for safety through thick smoke with flames behind them. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died

Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D

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3 w. ago People in UK may be able to get free flights if they act quickly

Major airlines such as Aer Lingus, Iberia, Level, and Vueling handed out vouchers for scrapped trips in 2020 and 2021 that are set to expire on 30 September 2025.

Politics

3 w. ago Air Crash Investigation: Pilot's horrifying words before crash killed every passenger

TV series Air Crash Investigation tonight examines the Midwest Express Flight 105 crash which killed all people on board. The plane suffered an engine failure after leaving Milwaukee but it's what happened next that stunned investigators

Events

3 w. ago Ange and the Boss: the Australian title and ties that bind Postecoglou and Puskás

There is emotional and cultural heft to the story revealed in a film about the Hungarian football great’s time as coach of South Melbourne HellasBased on a blur of childhood memory that hardly equals sociology, Australia in the 1980s and 90s was a place obsessed with celebrity. A small population at the far end of the world, a gap unbridged by cheap flights and eternal internet: when famous people came to visit, it was a huge deal.When Australians got involved in major events overseas, even bigger. There were years when Nicole Kidman just showing up at the Oscars felt like a national event. So it’s a hell of a story that one of the world’s greatest footballers coached a local soccer team in 1991, and hardly anybody noticed. Continue reading...

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