Bob CollinsDid a pilot violate aviation rules to help a photographer get a perfect picture?
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Tag: Aviation
Again this week, there are an unusual number of people flying around with inert hand grenades in their luggage.
The tiny things that cause big disasters
Nobody blunders public relations like the Transportation Security Administration and some of the nation’s airlines.
Did a regional airline stonewall federal investigators who were trying to determine if the pilot of a doomed flight was qualified to fly?
Would you rather be stranded on the ground in a plane for seven hours, or on a plane landing without landing gear?
Never leave home without your landmines
David Cazares
Fascinating, and maybe a little scary: Wired’s Noah Shachtman reports that a computer virus has infected the U.S. military’s fleet of unmanned aircraft, or drones. Excerpt: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, Read more →
Southwest Airlines has a likely public relations nightmare on its hands after it booted a lesbian couple for kissing on the plane.
The amount of loaded adjectives and supposition in a story is in inverse proportion to the amount of facts and good journalism therein.