38 h. ago Plane makes emergency landing after passenger ‘demands to swap seats to sit with girlfriend’

Multiple cabin crew tried to deal with the unruly passenger during the Spring Airlines flight from Japan

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62 h. ago Plane makes emergency landing after furious passenger 'refuses to stop arguing about swapping seats so he could be next to his girlfriend'

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing when a passenger allegedly refused to stop arguing with the crew about swapping seats to be next to his girlfriend.

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9 d. ago Five people rushed to hospital after plane forced to make an emergency landing because of foul odor

Four flight attendants and one passenger were taken to hospital as a precaution, American Airlines said

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2 w. ago Plane and car crash testing are designed only with men in mind. When will women be included?

Using a more accurate ‘average’ female dummy is not yet a legal requirement for car or plane testing

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2 w. ago Bomb threat on United Airlines flight as cops race to meet plane in forced landing

The United Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Lambert St Louis International Airport in Missouri this morning - a passenger was arrested following a bomb threat

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3 w. ago Air India plane forced into emergency landing following bomb threat

The plane, which was carrying 176 passengers and crew members for a scheduled two-hour flight, was evacuated on Wednesday afternoon following the threat.

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3 w. ago Air India Express plane forced into emergency landing over 'bomb' as statement issued

An Air India Express was forced to make an emergency landing on Wednesday afternoon after a bomb threat. The airline has now issued a statement following the incident

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3 w. ago ‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’ The founder of Peta on gruesome stunts and her bloody fight for animal rights

After 45 years as chief fake blood thrower, Ingrid Newkirk is still waging war on everything from leather to cashmere. Is she still relevant?Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) was flying from Minneapolis in the US to the company HQ in Norfolk, Virginia when her plane encountered strong wind shear. The pilot attempted an emergency landing, but failed; back up they went.On the third attempt, with “a teaspoon of fuel” in the tank, he finally got the plane down safely. During those moments, Newkirk, now 76, scribbled a will on a napkin. She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermès to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a “patronising” pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving. As wills...

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