A mid-air miscommunication almost led to a head-on crash on a Colorado runway last year – but the tragedy was avoided by a last-second maneuver by a JetBlue pilot that damaged the plane but caused no injuries. “I hope you don’t hit us,” the captain of the Beechcraft B300 King Air said over the radio … [Read more…]
News By Patrick Reilly Published December 15, 2023, 8:57 p.m. ET A mid-air miscommunication almost led to a head-on crash on a Colorado runway last year – but the tragedy was avoided by a last-second maneuver by a JetBlue pilot that damaged the plane but caused no injuries. “I hope you don’t hit us,” the … [Read more…]
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has a Warren Buffet problem. Via the Associated Press, Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway has accused Haslam of trying to bribe several executives at Pilot, the truck stop chain founded by Haslam’s father. Berkshire Hathaway claims Haslam wanted executives to drive up the company’s profits. The dispute stems from a sale of Pilot … [Read more…]
Bruce Bennett/Getty Images A general view of a Honda dealership is seen on September 15, 2022 in Farmingdale, New York. CNN – Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles due to a manufacturing defect that could damage the engine. According to a notice the automaker filed Thursday with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a connecting … [Read more…]
Shutting down a passenger aircraft’s engines in mid-air is not a recommended procedure in a flight manual. But Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson certainly wasn’t following the rules. The 44-year-old father of two was off duty but caught a ride – as pilots often do – in the cockpit of an Alaska flight from Washington … [Read more…]
An American Airlines plane. Nik Oiko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An American Airlines passenger claims his girlfriend was kicked out of her first class seat. In an X post, the man wrote that the crew initially said his girlfriend’s seat was broken. He added that a pilot was sitting in first class instead. An American … [Read more…]