6 h. ago United launches free Starlink wifi on mainline flights meaning Boeing 737 passengers can now stream movies at 38,000 feet

The airline expects to install Starlink on up to 15 mainline 737-800 planes each month — more than half of United's regional fleet already offers Starlink

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4 d. ago Country diary: Panic, stress, glory – my day scaling the Inaccessible Pinnacle | Merryn Glover

Black Cuillin, Skye: The rough rock tears the skin and is slippery when wet. But the only way is upTowers of shattered rock rise around us, wreathed in mist. We’ve been trudging for hours to gain this ridge, only to be buffeted by cold drafts and dampened by the swirling smirr of rain. This is the Black Cuillin of Skye, a ring of mountains forming the crater of an ancient volcano. It’s also the route of the legendary Skye Ridge Traverse, a 12km walk that takes in 11 Munros, the hills in Scotland above 3,000 feet, as originally measured by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891.The hardest here is the Inaccessible Pinnacle. A sharp fin of rock rising 50 metres above Sgùrr Dearg, it looked impossible to Munro, who contented himself with the rounded hump below. No such luck for today’s “Munro baggers” who must climb the In Pinn to claim completion. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Climbing star Balin Miller dies on livestream after plummeting 3000ft down Yosemite

Climbing influencer Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death as he was scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, an enormous sheer granite rock face of approximately 3,000 feet.

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1 week ago Balin Miller: Climbing star dies after plummeting down Yosemite during livestream

Climbing influencer Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death on Wednesday as he was scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, an enormous sheer granite rock face of approximately 3,000 feet

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2 w. ago Pilot left partially deaf after rushing to seal aircraft door that depressurized at 30,000 feet, lawsuit claims

Exclusive: Capt. Wayne Hoefler told The Independent he sprang into action to help fix a malfunctioning door plug -- one day before an incident nearly sucked passengers out of an Alaska Airlines jet

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2 w. ago Brit survives 11,000ft plunge as parachute fails on 'dream' US holiday skydive

Mitchell Deakin, 24, from Lancashire, has miracously survived a horror 11,000 feet drop after his parachute stopped working mid-air. He was rushed to hospital with critical injuries

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2 w. ago British Airways passenger, 21, 'sexually assaulted and attacked' cabin crew on flight from Dubai to London

Davide Sampson, 21, allegedly entered the aircraft drunk on March 13 before carrying out the offences 39,000 feet in the air aboard the double decker Airbus jet.

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2 w. ago Inside vile scam factories where ‘slaves’ use dark sex plots to target YOUR kids & face sick punishments if they fail

WATCHED closely by armed guards, a man posing online as a woman threatens to expose the nude selfies of a teenage boy unless the youngster transfers £1,000 to him. Just feet away from the man, another cyber scammer steals the life savings of a British widower after spending weeks love-bombing the pensioner in a sick...

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