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Thomas Cook Airlines Flight 313L: On a March flight from Antalya, Turkey, to Newcastle, 53-year-old Stephen Robinson of Darlington, who by his own account had not had the best time on holiday, became livid when told he could not use his Binns store card to pay for drinks on the plane. He called the flight attendant a "fucking wanker" and threw ...
Alaska Airlines dropped to third place in North America with a 79.3% on-time rate. Its 2023 punctuality rate was 82.3%. American Airlines' on-time performance fell to 77.8% in 2024 from 80.6% in 2023.
Pan Am Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was a round-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed. Flight 6 left Philadelphia on October 12 as a DC-6B and flew eastward to Europe and
The first recorded powered flight was carried out by Clément Ader on October 9, 1890, in his bat-winged, fully self-propelled fixed-wing aircraft, the Ader Éole. It was reportedly the first manned, powered, heavier-than-air flight of a significant distance (50 m (160 ft)) but insignificant altitude from level ground.
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 777-31H, [note 1] registered as A6-EMW with serial number 32700, and line number 434. It was powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 892 engines and was 13 years old, first flying on 7 March 2003. [13]
The history of aviation spans over two millennia, from the earliest innovations like kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight in powered, heavier-than-air jet aircraft. Kite flying in China, dating back several hundred years BC, is considered the earliest example of man-made flight. [ 1 ]
Air Ontario Flight 1363 was a scheduled Air Ontario passenger flight which crashed near Dryden, Ontario, Canada, on 10 March 1989 shortly after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport. [1] The aircraft was a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship twin jet. [ 2 ]
I Am Alive was produced by AMS Pictures and premiered on the History Channel on October 20, 2010. It was released for DVD on February 22, 2011. It was released for DVD on February 22, 2011. [ 1 ]