Aircraft in the News and Odd Stories

I found this interesting...

Low-frills carrier Ryanair is doing its bit to help the Spanish economy with its "Rescue Offer". The airline is promoting one way flights to Spain from £12.99 on its homepage, informing passengers "This summer Spain needs you!" This was in the Summer of 2012 though but shows a bit of creativity in marketing towards the Spanish.

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The Pavlof Volcano in Alaska began erupting on Monday and was still belching clouds, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said. It has been emitting occasional dark clouds of ash and steam rising up to 20,000 feet and drifting toward the northeast, the observatory said. This volcano has been belching off and on since the Summer of 2011.

Seems like a U.S Airways plane was forced to touch down on it's belly when the gear failed to fully deploy inbound to Newark Airport on Saturday.

http://cdn.localwireless.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=10&nid=223123215&cid=2457

The aircraft was a Dash 8 turboprop aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VSuC4rUW8bA

Two UK Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons have been scrambled to escort a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-300ER which was diverted to London Stansted airport after an incident on board.

More on that PIA Boeing 777-300ER that had to be escorted down

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/05/24/id-chance-uk-plane-unruly-passengers.cnn#/video/world/2013/05/24/id-chance-uk-plane-unruly-passengers.cnn

Small Plane Crashes Into Virginia Apartment

Three people suffered minor injuries after a small plane crashed into the living room of a Herndon, Virginia, apartment. "Mayday, mayday - engine out," said the pilot, in a controlled voice, to air controllers as his small plane struggled to stay aloft early Friday morning.

'Would you like tea or coffee with that, sir? Passengers on Singapore Airlines left surrounded by chaotic in-flight mess after turbulence hit jet during dinner' (Daily Mail)

Photo by: Alan Cross

The small aircraft turns out to be a Cessna 177 Cardinal.

lolllll Kelly

Just got wind of this one...WizzAir A320 with gear problems making an emergency landing in Rome.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/world/wizz-air-jet-with-gear-problem-makes-emergency-landing-at-rome-airport-all-aboard-safe-1.316036

A British couple has won a £430 payout after being delayed more than an entire day to fly home from Mallorca. 61 year-old architect, Kim Brittain and his wife, 55 year-old Sue, took legal action against Monarch Airlines after being stranded amongst 200 travellers for 26 hours at Palma de Mallorca Airport.

Must be a RedBull stunt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT3DeVEXXYo

On June 5, an unmanned Lockheed Martin K-Max helicopter has crashed near Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It was only one of two aircraft in that particular theater, was operating in unmanned mode and was about to complete its resupply flight when something obviously occured. "We are working with the Marine Corps to determine the root cause of this mishap," says Lockheed. The company deferred further comment to the US Marine Corps.

Flying Bike...well...flies in the Czech Republic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ovsgui4YWs

So I just saw this item on the news involving a Boeing 777-300ER operated by United. The flight United 116 was apparently flying from Hong Kong to Newark, a 15-hour flight when an unruly passenger had to be restrained by a number of other passenger because of random and 'threatening' rants and finally the man allegedly was grabbing for a item in his jacket, not sure what it was. The United triple seven landed safely at Newark without incident. The man at the center of the scare was taken into custody and sent to a center for evaluation.

More threats force aircraft to land unexpectedly

Two planes in near miss above NYC this evening.

Apparently this happened last week...but the news just blew up tonight as if it occured tonight.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Near-Miss-Planes-LaGuardia-Takeoff-747-Regional-Jet-212384061.html

Seems like United Airlines are running low on everything, first oil on their 787s now toilet paper on another of their aircraft on an 11 hour flight.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344686/United-Airlines-plane-runs-toilet-paper-11-hour-flight-San-Francisco-London.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

A small Samoan airline, Samoa Air is trying to cater for above average-size passengers travelling on its small aircraft. "The new seat is like a two-person couch, created from two adjacent seats without an armrest," says Chris Langton, Samoa Air's CEO as he explained to CNN.