It’s a definite no-no You should not swap seats to an empty one when taking off while you’re on a plane, and a former pilot has shared the surprising reason why. Moving isn’t the best idea even if it might look tempting to move over to an empty seat as you take off, as Pete […]

1 week ago

Recordings of the tragic final moments were retrieved from the wreckage. On 1 June 2009, Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people onboard. The cause of the tragic incident was attributed to a mix of technical failure made worse by a […]

2 years ago

He had been a pilot for 25 years. An airline pilot died after he collapsed in the bathroom on a flight from Miami to Chile with 271 passengers aboard. Captain Ivan Andaur, 56, began feeling unwell three hours into the LATAM Airlines flight from Florida to Santiago, which left Miami at 10.11pm on Monday, 14 […]

2 years ago

Be honest, how many of you thought it just got immediately dumped out of the plane mid-flight… A pilot has cleared up any uncertainty passengers may have about what happens when you flush your poo down a plane toilet mid-flight. Some of you may have felt guilty when hitting the flush, fearful that some poor […]

3 years ago

“It’s nothing short of a miracle.” A passenger without any flying experience managed to safely land a plane at a Florida airport when the pilot became incapacitated. The incident is currently being investigated but it is believed that the pilot suffered a medical emergency. In audio obtained by CNN, the worried passenger can be heard […]

4 years ago

Well this is certainly something you don’t hear every day…

12 years ago