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Every Christmas Day for the last 76 years, a priest has taken a chalice of water onto the quiet airfield at Dublin Airport and blessed the planes. But that tradition is up in the air due to new security protocols at the busy international hub. “Due to recent changes to security protocols, airside access is now restricted to airport operations only,” a spokesperson for DAA, the airport’s operator, tells Euronews Travel. “For this reason, non-operational activities can no longer be facilitated airside. We are currently working on a new approach to facilitating the traditional Christmas blessing ...
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A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tyre while taking off from San Francisco. Video shows the plane losing one of the six tyres on its left-side main landing gear assembly seconds after leaving the ground. The tyre landed in an employee parking lot at San Francisco International Airport, where it smashed into a car and shattered its back window before breaking through a fence and coming to stop. The flight was carrying 235 passengers and a crew of 14. No injuries were reported. Fire engines stood by at Los Angeles Inter...
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Flying in Europe is at its safest level since records began, according to new research from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Findings in their 2023 annual safety report for global aviation show that, in Europe alone, the ‘all accident’ rate improved from 0.98 per million sectors in 2022 down to 0.48 accidents in 2023. That statistic is significantly better than the continent’s 5-year average of 0.77 accidents per million. Better still, Europe has had a fatality risk of zero since 2018. Interestingly, the largest proportion of recorded accidents were down to landing gear coll...
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The US Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it's giving aircraft company Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality problems and meet safety standards for building planes after a panel blew off a brand-new Boeing 737 Max jet last month. The agency said the directive followed all-day meetings on Tuesday with top Boeing officials at FAA headquarters in Washington. “Boeing must commit to real and profound improvements,” said FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker. “Making foundational change will require a sustained effort from Boeing’s leadership, and we are going to hold them accou...
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Taylor Swift is threatening legal action against a student tracking her private jet. The pop star’s lawyers hit Jack Sweeney, a 22-year-old studying information technology at the University of Central Florida, with a cease-and-desist letter in December. Sweeney has made a name for himself by using public data and social media to track the private jets of billionaires, politicians and other celebrities - leading to one very public dust-up with Elon Musk in 2022. In a letter shared by Sweeney with the Associated Press (AP), Swift’s attorneys blame his automated tracking of her private jet for ti...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of an underwater airplane wreckage is viral with the claim that it is the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which has been been found without a human skeleton despite carrying 239 people on board. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to our fact-check, the viral image shows the wreckage of an abandoned Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane which reportedly sunk in 2019 to be colonised by marine life and attract divers. Furthermore, while there has been reported discovery of marine debris that was linked to the missing MH370 flight, t...
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A woman has been arrested for assault after she punched and spat on a man on a Delta Airline flight. The woman was identified as Patricia Cornwall, 51, of Los Angeles. The dispute began on Thursday over Cornwall’s unruly behavior on Flight 2790 from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia, including her refusal to wear a mask. According to reports, Cornwall had attempted to return to her seat from the restroom, but was blocked by the beverage service cart in the aisle. She asked the flight attendant to help her find her seat, and the flight attendant requested that she wait in an available seat unt...
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