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Tuesday, 21 March 2017 BEIJING: A frenzied passenger attempted to enter the cockpit of a Beijing-bound aircraft on Saturday before being subdued by a Chinese passenger and the flight captain. The incident took place on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Beijing, according to news portal ThePaper.cn. There …

Wednesday, 15 March 2017   SYDNEY: A woman suffered burns to her face and hands after her headphones caught fire during a flight to Australia, officials said Wednesday (15 March) as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices on planes. The passenger was listening to music on her own …

Richard Marx, who is known for his romantic hit singles in the ’80s, took the risk to suppress a “wild” passenger on Korean Air flight 480 from Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday. His wife, Daisy Fuentes, documented the ordeal in a series of posts on Instagram and Twitter.  He helped the …

Saturday, 30 September 2017 :  The last international flight left Erbil airport on Friday as the Baghdad government imposed an air ban on Iraqi Kurdistan in retaliation for an independence vote that has drawn widespread opposition from foreign powers. Iraq’s Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in Monday’s referendum, defying neighbouring countries, which …

Monday, 28 August 2017 :  Japan’s Defense Ministry on Sunday said it was searching for three crew members of a Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopter in the Sea of Japan after contact was lost with the chopper. One crew member had been rescued uninjured. The ministry said the SH-60J anti-submarine …

Wednesday, 12 July 2017   JAKARTA: A Garuda Indonesia passenger was removed from a Timika-Denpasar flight on Monday after a flight attendant heard him joke to another passenger that his heavy bag contained a bomb. The man, identified only by his initials WH, was removed before the aircraft took off …

Monday, 3 July 2017 WASHINGTON – The United States on Sunday lifted a ban on laptops in cabins on flights from Abu Dhabi to the United States, saying the United Arab Emirates’ Etihad Airways had put in place required tighter security measures. Etihad Airways welcomed the decision, and credited a …

Monday, 3 July 2017 Planes used to be WiFi-free zones, but not any more. Now, you can send and receive e-mails, keep your Facebook page up-to-date or stream movies while soaring through the air. Access to WiFi comes at a cost, of course, and the damage to your wallet will …

Thursday, 29 June 2017   WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday unveiled enhanced security measures for flights to the country designed to prevent expanding an in-cabin ban on laptops, but an airline trade group said the changes might cause more disruptions. The measures, which European and U.S. officials said would …

Friday, 2 June 2017 At around 9:30 p.m. local time, flight CA428 turned south in the direction of Tai O village — and nearby mountains — instead of heading west until it left the island as the aircraft usually would, according to images from the Flightradar aircraft tracking site. When …