On-time departures are a critical aspect of airline operations and how they are viewed by the flying public. However, is it worth sacrificing passenger satisfaction in some instances in order to stay on time?
Police in New Zealand are investigating the death of an aircraft engineer, Miles Hunter, 51, who was sucked into the engine of a C-130 Hercules transport plane early Monday morning.
None too often does a propeller just up and leave the plane it's attached to while in the air, but the one on this Cessna 172 decided to bounce somewhere over Mexico.
The folks at Taiwan's NextMedia, who have previously given Tiger Woods and Lindsay Lohan the cartoon treatment, today animated America's newest hero, Steven Slater.