Federal investigators said Saturday that the right engine of US Airways Flight 1549 is still attached to the plane, contradicting their earlier statements that it broke off after the aircraft hit the water. They're going to try and lift the plane out of the water around 2:30 PM EST. Check out the icy water in the comments picked by suebe 10 months ago

In what was OBVIOUSLY the wrong movie, a man gets stung by a scorpion while flying from Miami to Toronto.


Man quoted as saying "Where the hell is Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?" picked by icepigs 3 years ago

Okay, so. Last year we had SNAKES ON A PLANE. This year we have ZOMBIES ON A PLANE. Well, the official name for this film is FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, but we all know what they’re going for. This is an independent film, originally called PLANE DEAD, that has been picked up by New Line Cinema. Watch the trailer picked by sholom22 3 years ago

F-16 fighter jets, which intercepted the plane near Michigan's Upper Peninsula border with Wisconsin, tried repeatedly to draw the pilot's attention. picked by kakana 7 months ago

I wish there was a photo of the moment he opened the door to his plane and looked out to greet the masses and noticed he was the only one there. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

This 3D movie was made from a sequence of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it crossed the plane of Saturn's main rings. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Red-faced Brazilian officials say debris they thought was from an Air France crash in the Atlantic was in fact sea "trash," adding to the uncertainties surrounding the jet tragedy.

"Up to now, no material from the plane has been recovered," Brigadier Ramon Cardoso, director of Brazilian air traffic control, told reporters.
Update to this picked by bingo 5 months ago

When the pilot of the twin-engine Beech aircraft passed out and died mid-flight, passenger Doug White of Archibald, Louisiana, took over the plane and landed it safely. picked by bingo 7 months ago

The crash site indicated that the plane had plunged vertically into the ground, Brazil's airport authority chief, Jose Carlos Pereira, told Reuters. picked by dollyllama 3 years ago

A passenger on an Australian-bound plane vomited a nylon bag of white powder suspected to be heroin, causing the plane to return to Vietnam in the latest drug mule case between that country and Australia. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

You can't escape the Reaper. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

Plane Landing is a sculpture of an airplane in a permanent state of landing. On July 4 and 5, 2008 Plane Landing appeared at the Zurich Airport as part of the show 'Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now', curated by Mirjam Varadinis for Kunsthaus Zurich. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Continental Airlines diverted a Twin-Cities-bound plane to Rochester due to a storm, and then locked the entire planeload of passengers in the plane overnight for nine hours. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

Aer Lingus cabin crew caused chaos on a Dublin to Paris flight by accidentally playing a message in French which warned that the plane was about to make an emergency landing. picked by ruthstark 2 months ago

A British Airways plane arriving from Amsterdam crash-landed at London City Airport on Friday but all 67 passengers and four crew were safely evacuated, emergency services said. picked by aclister 9 months ago

This was the amazing scene at a Texas airport today after a plane trying to land ended up touching down on top of another plane waiting to take-off. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A German couple have departed from a Lantana, Fla., airport for a three-year world tour in a kit-built tiny plane that can only carry 200 pounds of luggage. picked by rubber2002 7 months ago

Arachnid, 5 babies hitched a ride from Arizona in carry-on bag.

*there is some kind of "scorpions on a mutha f'in plane joke here* picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Ramp workers found the strange red, sticky substance as they were putting things on the plane in the cargo area. Turns out it was jelly...or cough syrup. No one has dared taste it to confirm yet. picked by Moe 2 years ago

It was very nearly a real-life version of "Snakes on a Plane." A man was stopped at Cairo's airport just moments before he boarded a Saudi Arabia-bound plane with carry-on bags filled with live snakes, as well as a few baby crocodiles and chameleons. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago