A father has attempted to sue Southwest Airlines after it flew his runaway teen hundreds of miles away from home without his permission. The man, Mr. Ahmed Edwards, has had his case thrown out of court. Here’s why.
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For the father of the runaway teen, one course of action still remains, and that is to complain to the US Department of Transportation (DoT). For most passengers, however, fighting an airline, in the US at least, is a losing battle from the start.
Tragedy struck in Bangkok earlier today as an airport worker was crushed to death by a Boeing 737. The incident, involving a Nok Air aircraft, injured one other person.
An Airbus A320 with 172 civilian passengers on board has been forced to make an emergency landing due to Israeli airstrikes in Syria. The plane, operated by Syrian Cham Wings, flew into the path of retaliatory fire by Syrian air defenses. It made a safe landing at Khmeimim airbase near to Damascus.
Over the weekend, a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400’s emergency slide unintentionally deployed at Manchester Airport. This took place just as the catering service vehicle was pulling up to the aircraft. The incident ended up causing delays for flight VS75 with service to Orlando – arriving six hours and 16 minutes late.
Four people are dead after the planes they were in crashed mid-air at a regional Victorian airport.
Emergency services were called to two separate crash scenes near the Mangalore airport about 11.30am on Wednesday.
An Air Canada flight had to make a heart-stopping emergency landing without a wheel yesterday. The Airbus A319 was heading into Toronto from New York when it was discovered that it no longer had one of its main landing wheels. The aircraft landed safely with all 120 passengers reported to be secure and well.
ShanwickOceanic wrote:Omni bends a 767 at SNN: http://avherald.com/h?article=4d449dfc&opt=0
Bent in exactly the same way as a Thomson bird I saw at BRS about ten years ago.
mhodgson wrote:Thai A330 and G4 have a coming together at VTE:
https://twitter.com/JacdecNew/status/12 ... 0092589064
https://twitter.com/JacdecNew/status/12 ... 5301555202
The G4 in question will be familiar to a few people on here:
Zak wrote:Indeed! Didn't it belong to some sports personality? Golf pro, or something like that?
An unusual incident occurred at Delta Air Lines‘ new hangar at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Earlier this week, there was an accidental foam discharge. This caused the whole hangar and the ground outside to be covered in foam.
German investigators have detailed an approach incident in which a Thai Airways Airbus A350-900 descended to less than 670ft above ground while still nearly 6.5nm from touchdown at Frankfurt Main.
An aircraft carrying medical supplies from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila in the Philippines to Japan has crashed during take-off. It is believed that the aircraft overshot the runway earlier today and shortly after was engulfed in flames. Eight people are reported to have died in the incident.
An Aer Lingus Airbus A330 flight due to collect medical aid from Beijing was cut short earlier today. The aircraft suffered a bird strike climbing out of Dublin Airport, and had to return to its origin.
An Allegiant Air Airbus A320 was involved in a hair raising near-miss at an Orlando airport, when a tiny Cirrus aircraft taxied right by it, underneath its wing! The pilots reached out to the tower for an explanation, but none was forthcoming. It’s likely that a full investigation will be launched in response to this close call.
Investigators are probing the loss of a nose-wheel from a FedEx Boeing MD-11F, apparently during departure from San Antonio.
The aircraft (N619FE) had been operating the FX464 service to Memphis on 7 April.
airtrainer wrote:An Allegiant Air Airbus A320 was involved in a hair raising near-miss at an Orlando airport, when a tiny Cirrus aircraft taxied right by it, underneath its wing! The pilots reached out to the tower for an explanation, but none was forthcoming. It’s likely that a full investigation will be launched in response to this close call.
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On the night of April 3rd, a naked passenger arrived at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and approached the Spirit Airlines ticket counter. The staff at the airport called authorities who arrived shortly after. After a bit of a kerfuffle, the passenger was arrested.
airtrainer wrote:For once, that wasn't a man