Posts Tagged ‘Aviation accidents and incidents’
 

 
Delta Terminal 3 at JFK Airport. (Photo by reallyboring via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA)

Wing of Delta Plane Clips Tail of Another at New York’s Kennedy Airport

Two Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 jets bumped into each other at Kennedy Airport in New York Friday evening, but no one was injured.
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An Air Canada Boeing 767-300ER (C-GEOQ) seen lifting off from Montreal (left: Photo by Gordon Gebert Jr.). A radar image of Venus from the Magellan spacecraft. (right: Image by NASA)

Drowsy Air Canada Pilot Dives Plane to Avoid Hitting Venus: Yup, the Planet

It's not often that the pilots of earth-based vehicles are forced to make risky, evasive maneuvers to avoid colliding with other worlds, but that's exactly what an Air Canada pilot did last year, a government investigation has ...
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JetBlue CEO Dave Barger appeared on NBC's Today. (Screengrab from NBC)

JetBlue Pilot Meltdown: The Day After

Less than a day after JetBlue Captain Clayton Osbon suffered a psychotic episode while operating a flight to Vegas, the morning talk shows essentially boiled the incident down to one ridiculous question: "Will a psychopathic ai...
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Federal Complaint against JetBlue Flight 191 pilot Clayton Osbon

Read the Federal Complaint Against JetBlue Pilot Clayton Osbon

Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue Flight 191 Captain who suffered a psychotic episode on March 27, 2012.
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A JetBlue Airbus A320 like this one was diverted to Amarillo after the Captain suffered a panic attack. (Photo by Kaz T)

JetBlue Pilot Meltdown Ended by Choke Hold from Former Prison Guard: With Video and Audio

A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing on Tuesday when the captain suffered some kind of mental breakdown. No one was injured, thanks in part to the actions of David Gonzalez, who held the pilot in a choke hold until the pl...
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