Passengers on a British Airways flight from New Delhi to London faced a 13-hour delay as the pilot felt he was too sleepy after a noisy night in a New Delhi hotel. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago tags sleepy crew delays flight British Airways |
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British Airways has banned cabin crew from microwaving their own food after a curry exploded at 35,000 ft (10,668 metres), causing around $US40,000 ($48,790) of damage to an aircraft. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Before that full flight, the crew put on pink feather boas and sang for its couple hundreds passengers, she said. "Even the pilot was wearing fairy wings and got into it," Williams said. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Not content with losing thousands of bags, British Airways has gone one better by managing to lose an elderly passenger. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
Did you ever wonder about your own "fight or flight" response? Here's is a young man discovering that his response is most definitely "fight." How would your primitive brain respond? picked by ogri2003 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know. picked by super 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share world |
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(National Geographic documentary footage): 2 comments edit related share plime.comAeroflot Flight 593 refers to an accident on March 23, 1994 in which a RAL - Russian Airlines Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, crashed into a hillside in Siberia. All 75 passengers and crew were killed. The cockpit voice recorder revealed that the pilot's 15-year-old son, Eldar Kudrinsky, was initially at the controls. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago |
A chunk of a US Airways wing separated during a flight from Orlando to Philadelphia and cracked a passenger's window. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
A flight attendant obviously wanted to liven things up a bit for the crew and passengers. picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Horrified passengers watched as their co-pilot was manhandled from the cockpit after suffering a mental breakdown 30,000ft over the Atlantic. picked by cb__ 9 months ago 3 comments edit related share science |
A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan's Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
An unemployed Chinese man boarded an aeroplane disguised as a pilot, in order to get a free flight home, according to state media. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Flight of the Conchords. (has anybody got HBO? I record them all, call) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Swiss daredevil's bid to cross the English Channel propelled by a jet-powered wing strapped to his back moved a step closer with a successful 36km test flight over Switzerland.(with video of flight over Alps) picked by Bornbad 2 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Amazing flight demo! I hope I live long enough to do something like this. Richard Branson (Virgin) is just the guy to do it too. 0 comments edit related share technologySee also: (BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson) picked by ogri2003 1 year ago |
A Pearl Harbor-based sailor was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old girl on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Hawaii to Arizona. picked by muppet 9 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
This guy launches a paper airplane off the 30th floor of a building in the financial district of New York City. The flight it goes on without crashing is pretty amazing. picked by misswinkle 10 months ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses. All teams were given the rules 24 hours in advance of the start of the race (10a EST on Friday). The rules include route requirements (such as two a... read full post picked by dfelteau 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Google appear to have added a hidden feature to the latest version of Google Earth... A flight simulator! There are two aircraft to choose from in this version... The F16 and the SR22. picked by bunmaster 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
This time lapse image shows air traffic flight patterns over N. America from space. 5 comments edit related share plime.com(I'm not sure of its authenticity since the popular "power grid" photo turned out to be a fake). picked by ogri2003 1 year ago |