Jet2 737-800 Veers Off Runway at Birmingham in Storm Boelo Winds
Share this story The touchdown looked normal. Then the nose swung left, and a Jet2 Boeing 737-800 rolled off the edge of the runway and onto the grass at Birmingham Airport, while people filming the landing could be heard reacting in disbelief. It happened on Sunday...
Freedom Flag Exercise: South Korea and US Launch Air Drills at Kunsan
Share this story Two weeks of allied air combat training began on Monday in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea and the United States opened the Freedom Flag exercise on 26 October 2026, a two-week combined air drill that the Republic of Korea Air Force...
Operation Urgent Fury: The Air War Over Grenada, 1983
Share this story At 05:30 on 25 October 1983, the first Army Rangers stepped out of a Hercules over the south-western tip of Grenada. They jumped from about 500 feet, low enough to stay under the anti-aircraft fire. Below them lay a half-finished runway, blocked with...
Palm Beach Intercept: NORAD F-16 Headbutts Plane Over Mar-a-Lago
Share this story Shortly after noon on Saturday, 24 October 2026, a small plane over Palm Beach, Florida, picked up an unwanted escort. A NORAD F-16 intercepted the general aviation aircraft at about 12:20 p.m. local time after it flew into the FAA Temporary Flight...
Boeing 777 Freighter Production Halted by a Wing-Part Dispute
Share this story Boeing has not finished a 777 Freighter in nearly two months. Not because of a strike, an engine shortage or a regulator. According to a Reuters exclusive published late on 23 October 2026, the line in Everett, Washington, stopped because a small...
Project Homerun: The RB-47 Spy Flights Over the Soviet Arctic
Share this story On 14 April 1956, three silver jets climbed out of Thule, Greenland, and turned towards the top of the world. Their pilots were heading for Noril’sk, a closed Soviet nickel-mining city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Two air refuellings...
Sui-ho Dam Strikes 1952: The Raid That Blacked Out North Korea
Share this story Just before four o’clock on the afternoon of 23 June 1952, US Navy Skyraiders tipped into their dives over the Yalu River. Below them sat the Sui-ho Dam, one of the biggest hydroelectric plants on earth. Across the river, less than 40 miles...
FQ-42 Vengeance: Boeing’s Spirit Defense Joins Drone Production
Share this story For more than three decades, every Predator, Reaper and Gray Eagle that General Atomics sold was built by General Atomics. On Friday the company broke that habit for its most important new aircraft. The fuselage of the FQ-42 Vengeance, the US Air...
Why Airlines Dim the Cabin Lights for Takeoff and Landing
Share this story You have just finished your drink, the seat backs are coming up and suddenly the cabin goes dark. No, the airline is not trying to set a romantic mood or save electricity. When crews dim the cabin lights for takeoff and landing, they are preparing...
T-6A Texan II Crew Bail Out Near Seguin After Landing Gear Warning
Share this story Some days the hardest part of flight training is the landing. On Thursday evening, 22 October 2026, two U.S. Air Force pilots in a T-6A Texan II decided, with expert advice from the ground, that the safest way to finish their flight was not to land at...
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