7 h. ago Plane crash cannibal who ATE human flesh to survive after rugby team's aircraft came down in the Andes in 1972, dies aged 71

Alvaro Mangino (pictured), who was one of 16 passengers who survived the now infamous 1972 plane crash, died on March 29 following a bout of pneumonia

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52 h. ago Plane with 131 passengers and jet forced to divert to prevent possible crash at major US airport

The incident at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport comes after 67 people were killed in the airspace just two months ago

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2 d. ago Woman dies on easyJet flight as three plane passengers fight to save her life

A woman believed to be 67 suffered a cardiac arrest soon after an easyJet flight left Tenerife for Liverpool John Lennon Airport and died, despite the efforts of those aboard

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3 d. ago Freeloader who moaned that claiming benefits is harder than working full time jets off to Japan for a dream trip paid for by the taxpayer

Joshua Bishop - not his real name - went viral last year when he shared what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) make him do to keep his unemployment benefit is harder than having a job.

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4 d. ago Pilot in Alaska plane crash horror 'DID NOT have a licence to fly with passengers'

National Transportation Safety Board said John Morris Jr was a student pilot, and so did not have the right licence - or authority - to be able to fly with passengers

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5 d. ago Plane passenger is arrested after performing 'unusual' sex act in front of shocked women during flight

A fellow passenger noticed the man, 33, engaged in the inappropriate act roughly halfway through the 73-minute flight. She alerted cabin crew, who issued repeated warnings to the man to stop.

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5 d. ago Passenger plane forced to divert to another airport after pilot forgot passport

A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai landed in San Francisco after two hours because of the blunder

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5 d. ago Flight forced to divert after pilot realises they forgot their passport

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

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5 d. ago Gatwick plane passenger woke up to man sexually assaulting her in midair, court told

A woman claimed she woke up on a Gatwick-bound flight to find a man sexually assaulting her - Lewes Crown Court heard how Momade Jussab was arrested when the Qatar Airways flight from Doha landed at Gatwick in September 2024

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6 d. ago Plane forced to turn back just two hours into journey after passenger loses phone mid

Passengers were only a quarter of the way into the 4,200-mile flight from Paris to the Caribbean

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6 d. ago All three passengers found alive after small plane goes missing over Alaska

The pilot’s father said he had “air in his lungs” again after the plane’s wreckage was discovered, according to local reports

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6 d. ago Search launched after small passenger plane goes missing over Alaska

The pilot’s phone last pinged near Tustumena Lake at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to local reports

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7 d. ago Plane forced into turn back just two hours into journey after passenger loses phone mid

Passengers were only a quarter of the way into the 4,200-mile flight from Paris to the Caribbean

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7 d. ago Plane is forced to return home two hours into its flight after passenger loses their phone on board

An AirFrance plane has been forced to return home just two hours into its flight after a passenger lost their phone mid-air. 

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7 d. ago Plane is forced to return home two hours into its flight after passenger loses their phone on

An AirFrance plane has been forced to return home just two hours into its flight after a passenger lost their phone mid-air. 

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7 d. ago United flight forced to divert after pilot realises they forgot their passport

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

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9 d. ago Plane passenger found dead upon landing with his seatbelt still fastened

The deceased was later identified as Asifullah Ansari after unsuspecting crew members from Air India had tried to wake him but received no response upon landing in Lucknow on Friday

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1 week ago Sorry everyone, we're heading back to North Carolina: Moment passengers are told their plane is turning back

Flight AA730 left Charlotte Airport in North Carolina at 7.30pm EDT (11.30pm GMT) and was due to land at Heathrow at 7am GMT (3am EDT), but did a 180-degree turn on the eastern edge of Canada.

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1 week ago Moment Ryanair crew shout for passengers to sit down after 'disruption' causes diversion

Footage shows a Ryanair plane coming into land with cabin crew telling passengers to sit down on a flight which had to be diverted en route from Birmingham to Agadir due to trouble on board

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1 week ago Am I wrong for being offended by passenger's selfish act on the plane?

A traveller has sparked a furious debate on airplane etiquette over a passenger's 'rude and stupid' act.

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