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A fascinating photo album that highlights the perilous nature of landing fighter planes on aircraft carriers at the start of the Second World War has been unearthed. The black and white snaps were taken in 1939 and show Royal Naval biplanes coming a cropper while practising take-offs and landings on HMS Courageous, a converted battlecruiser. … Read more
‘UFO’ is filmed flying at 35,000ft over Pakistan by shocked airline pilots who say it was not a balloon or aircraft WARNING: FOOTAGE CONTAINS SWEARING Pilots saw UFO while operating a flight between Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan Object looks like a circular light and it flares and pulses above 35,000ft The Pakistan Airlines pilots said … Read more
Having grown rapidly to become Europe’s third-largest low-cost airline and one of the few to apply the budget model to transatlantic flights, Norwegian Air is fighting for its survival again after the Oslo government on Monday ruled out further support. Following are key dates in the company’s 27-year history. 2020 Aug. 28: Norwegian Air says … Read more
Peter Weber said his relationship with girlfriend Kelley Flanagan ‘simply didn’t work out in the end,’ as he announced their split via Instagram last week. But a source close to the situation claims that the 29-year-old pilot’s notoriously ‘overbearing’ mother Barbara may have played a role in the couple’s untimely breakup. ‘Barb put a lot of pressure … Read more
WWII pilot’s daughter takes to the skies in Hurricane he flew to defend Britain in WWII to honour his memory and his ‘mates who didn’t come back’ Eugenie Brooks, 55, flew her father John’s Hawker Hurricane over RAF Manston John flew the plane with the 174 (Mauritius) squadron during Second World War Fighter pilot also … Read more
Brits flying home for Christmas had a fright when a wheel fell off a holiday jet while it was landing and then rolled past the cockpit as the two pilots watched in horror, a report has revealed. The TUI airliner had just touched down at Manchester airport after an otherwise ‘uneventful’ Christmas Eve flight from Agadir … Read more
The wife of a British pilot carried her motionless one-year-old daughter from the lift into the foyer of a five star hotel sobbing that her husband had ‘killed my child – he hit her’, a court was told. Airbus 330 captain Mohamed Barakat, 41, faces up to 20 years in a Kazakh jail if convicted … Read more
Charles Holbrook was shot and killed as he was in the observation area of a botched training mission on Holloman Air Force Base in January 2017 The family of a civilian contractor accidentally strafed and killed by a student F-16 pilot during a botched 2017 training has been awarded a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit. On … Read more
Charles Holbrook was shot and killed as he was in the observation area of a botched training mission on Holloman Air Force Base in January 2017 The family of a civilian contractor accidentally strafed and killed by a student F-16 pilot during a botched 2017 training has been awarded almost $25million in a wrongful death lawsuit. On … Read more
Japan’s military pilots are ordered to report UFO sightings and try to photograph any strange sightings under new protocols Japan’s Defence minister Taro Kono said unusual sightings should be reported Government insists that Japanese pilots have never encountered any UFOs It comes only weeks after the Pentagon set up a new task force for odd sightings … Read more