Saturday Logbook 11/28: Saudi Arabian 777 Performs Fuel Dump During Emergency Return to JFK and More
A busy couple of days at JFK with emergency landings and AirTrain malfunctions. Plus: 787 wing testing gets underway, and a SATA A310 almost bites it.
Southwest Airlines Jet Skids Off Runway in Chicago
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 skidded off a runway after landing at Chicago's Midway Airport, Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured.
New Underwear Bomb Plot Thwarted by CIA, But More Bombs and Terrorists Unaccounted For
The CIA has broken up a new Al Qaeda plot to blow up an airliner using explosive underwear, the Associated Press reported Monday afternoon. An upgraded underwear bomb with an improved detonation system was seized by agents in Y...
On This Day in Aviation History: November 10th
British Airways Concorde G-BOAD makes its last flight to JFK in 2003, Southern Airways Flight 49 is hijacked, Russian Lunokhod 1 is launched, the first European flight over one minute and more...
Shuttle Discovery Final Launch Coming No Sooner than December 3rd: NASA
NASA on Thursday said that the launch of the final mission of the space shuttle Discovery will take place no earlier than December 3 as necessary repairs have not been completed.