A British couple was rescued from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by an Italian tanker after spending 40 days lost at sea.
Stuart Armstrong, 51, and his partner Andrea Davison, 48, are heading back to Britain on board the supertanker Indian Point.
Although unhurt, they were tired, exhausted and grateful to be returning home after their six-week ordeal in which they “stared death in the face.”
The drama began on Jan. 9, six days after the couple left the Cape Verde Islands off the West Coast of Africa on board their yacht Sara.
About 30 people were injured Friday when a Northwest Airlines flight suffered turbulence before landing at Japan’s Narita International Airport, a Northwest spokesman said.
Three people where seriously injured, fire officials said. Tokyo ’s Kyodo news agency later put the number of overall injured at 47.
There were 408 passengers and 14 crew members on the Boeing 747-400 flight from Manila, Philippines .
American passenger Vincent Salazar told Kyodo News that he heard screams around 30 minutes before the plane was scheduled to arrive as it suddenly fell, then ascended.
An alert pilot of Air India’s Haj flight today helped avert a possible disaster at NSC Bose Airport this morning.
The Boeing-747 flight carrying 449 haj pilgrims from Jeddah was about to land in three minutes when the pilot noticed another aircraft on the same runway and contacted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) officers alerting them to it.
There was poor visibility and planes were landing under CAT-II ILS conditions. The ATC officers immediately contacted the pilot of the Alliance Air’s cargo flight that was on the runway. The cargo flight, IC-7901 was carrying mails to Guwahati.
A flight attendant was forced to land a UK-bound jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had a mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, an official report disclosed today.
Another attendant suffered wrist injuries as the crew forcibly removed the co-pilot from the cockpit controls and restrained him in a seat in the cabin, the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) said.
As the Air Canada plane made its way over the Atlantic, the captain of the Boeing 767 from Toronto to Heathrow asked staff to seek out any trained pilots onboard.
The Australian Navy has rescued 12 people from a sinking boat near Ashmore Reef off the West Australian coast.
The stationary boat was spotted by a Coastwatch plane late Wednesday about 80 nautical miles southeast of the reef.
The navy’s HMAS Ararat was sent to investigate, and found the boat was sinking fast because of a hole in the hull and its engine damaged beyond repair.
The 10 people and two crew members on board are being taken to Christmas Island.
A QantasLink plane made an emergency landing at Brisbane Airport last night, after smoke filled the cockpit.
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The Dash-8 aircraft, en route from Roma in central Queensland, touched down at 7.23pm, less than five minutes after the pilot contacted Air Traffic Control to request the emergency landing.
Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest carrier, said two of its Boeing Co. 747 aircraft were damaged in a collision while being towing at a maintenance base.
“Both aircraft did sustain some damage and the extent of this is being assessed,” Qantas said in an e-mailed statement. “We have stood the individuals involved down pending a full investigation into this incident.”
A Ryanair flight from Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Ciampino Airport near Rome on Monday after striking a flock of starlings, Italian news outlets reported.
Two crew members and several of the 166 passengers were reportedly treated for minor injuries. As the plane began its landing, the birds were sucked into its engines, damaging the landing gear and forcing the aircraft to slide to a halt. One turbine then detached and hit the ground.
Passengers on a Thomas Cook chartered flight from Glasgow have escaped injury after their plane skidded off the runway at Lanzarote airport.
The Air Europa Boeing-737 plane had 74 people on board when it left Glasgow Airport at about 0300 GMT on Friday.
Flight AEA-196 came off the runway after touching down in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, at about 0710 GMT.
DENVER (AP) — A fire caused $1 million worth of damage at an unmanned underground nuclear launch site last spring, but the Air Force didn’t find out about it until five days later, an Air Force official said Thursday.
The May 23 fire burned itself out after an hour or two, and multiple safety systems prevented any threat of an accidental launch of the Minuteman III missile, Maj. Laurie Arellano said. She said she was not allowed to say whether the missile was armed with a nuclear warhead at the time of the fire.
