Gulfstream G100 Air Ambulance Lost Off Nantucket With Six on Board
Share this story It was meant to be a routine night run: a patient, a family member and a four-person medical crew, flying from Bermuda to Boston in a small twin-engine jet. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, 3 October 2026, the Gulfstream G100 air ambulance lifted...
Ram Air Turbine Explained: The Emergency Propeller on Your Jet
Share this story Every airliner and many military jets carry a small propeller that the passengers hope never to see. It sits folded inside the fuselage or a wing fairing, and it only comes out on the worst day of a crew’s career: when every engine-driven...
KLM’s First Airbus A350 Lands: PH-ZNA “De Nachtwacht”
Share this story KLM’s long-haul future touched down at Schiphol on Friday afternoon, 2 October. Airbus A350-900 PH-ZNA, named “De Nachtwacht” after Rembrandt’s Night Watch, landed in Amsterdam after a delivery flight from Toulouse, the first...
Boeing SPEEA Contract Ratified: Engineer Strike Averted
Share this story Boeing can breathe out. On 1 October, members of SPEEA, the union that represents the company’s engineers and technical workers, voted to accept new four-year contracts, ending the threat of a strike that could have begun the following week. It...
NTSB: Miami Tower Never Gave the Amazon 767 Crew the Wind
Share this story The tower told the Amazon jet it was cleared to land. It did not tell the crew what the wind was doing. Four minutes earlier, on another frequency, controllers had passed the gusts to someone else. That is one of the central findings in the National...
flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar: “I Was Fighting for My Life”
Share this story He was on the cockpit floor, bleeding from wounds to his head and hands, when he felt it. The Boeing 737 was going down. Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot in command of flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on 30 September, has now told...
Vortex Generators: The Little Fins That Fix Big Wing Problems
Share this story Take a window seat over the wing of a Boeing 737 Next Generation and look just outboard of the engine. A short row of small blades stands on the upper skin, each angled across the airflow like a miniature keel. Passengers photograph them, post the...
Vapor Cone Explained: Why the White Cloud Is Not the Sound Barrier
Share this story On 7 July 1999, Ensign John Gay was on the highest deck of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation when an F/A-18C Hornet tore past wrapped in a white bell of cloud. The nose and canopy were clear. The rest of the jet seemed to be bursting out of a...
Mary Ellis: The ATA Pilot Who Flew 400 Spitfires Without a Radio
Share this story The Wellington rolled to a stop at an airfield in East Anglia, and the ground crew went looking for its pilot. They would not believe it was the young woman who had climbed down from the cockpit. “They actually went inside the aeroplane and...
Erling Haaland Sues Norwegian Air Over a Ponytail on a Plane
Share this story For more than two decades, Norwegian Air Shuttle has flown other people’s faces around Europe. Greta Garbo has gazed out from the fin of a Boeing 737-800. Sonja Henie, Thor Heyerdahl and Edvard Munch have taken their turns up there too. This...
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