“For some reason, it was always Johannesburg and I blamed it on the wine and lack of oxygen.”
A stunning blend of geographic features renders Bhutan a visual masterpiece. However, these same elements also transform flying in and out into a highly specialised skill.
Emerson has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder, 83 misdemeanour counts of reckless endangerment and one felony count of endangering an aircraft. Talk about a bad trip.
A fighter jet stunt went horribly wrong in Bangladesh, leading to the sudden death of the 32-year-old pilot.
Both the pilot and co-pilot fell asleep at the same time for around 30 minutes during a flight from Kendari in Southeast Sulawesi province to the capital Jakarta on January 25.
Emerson allegedly told a flight attendant: “You need to cuff me right now or it’s going to be bad.”
The BA pilot apparently went a bit off the rails the night before, crossing a very dangerous line.
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This is not the first time that a pilot has drawn a rude shape in the sky. All kinds of aeroplanes from commercial flights to military aircraft have been caught tracing naughty patterns.
This pilot has opened up about her comings and goings flying in private aviation, revealing that there are indeed some pitfalls along with major perks.
It appears a Southwest Airlines pilot was still in dad mode when a passenger on a flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, started AirDropping nudes.
The novice pilot tried restarting the engine three times, but each time it shut down and eventually turned off completely, leaving him and his father-in-law in a life-and-death situation.
Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington cooked up a plan to fly their individual planes to around 3 600 metres in the air, where they would then nosedive the planes, jump out, and skydive into the other plane before landing safely.
An audio recording revealed the moments the Air France pilot lost brief control of the Boeing 777-300ER during an aborted landing in Paris.
Video footage captured the moment a pilot, who had crash-landed his plane onto railway tracks, was saved mere seconds before a high-speed train came hurtling towards it.
Last Tuesday, a “possible human tragedy” was narrowly avoided when a pilot was found standing on a sinking plane.
A small single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a highway in California, crashing straight into a couple who happened to be celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Earlier this week, a deal between SAA and the SAA Pilots Association (SAAPA) was finally sealed, finalising the retrenchment of many pilots.
After student pilot Brian Parsley took off on his first solo cross-country flight, he was forced to make an emergency landing following engine failure.
Some of these pilots have more followers than Hollywood celebrities, and could afford to quit their day jobs to become Instagram influencers.
More and more US Navy personnel are speaking out about their experience with UFOs, and the Pentagon is due to release a report on the matter by June 1.
Almost everyone hated the series finale of ‘Game of Thrones’. Turns out the original pilot wasn’t great, either.
If you’re a pilot, I’m sorry to inform you that the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan is keen to leave you in the past.
Fighter pilots need nerves of steel and laser quick reactions. With things happening so quickly, you have to give any F-16 pilot credit for just having the wherewithal to eject from the aircraft before it explodes into a fireball.
A Russian pilot used his expert flying skills to save the lives of more than 230 people when a flock of seagulls collided with his plane.
You have to really trust your technology to hop in an air taxi and take to the skies. Here’s what went down in Austria yesterday.
A pilot has allegedly died by suicide, after flying his plane into a building in an attempt to kill his wife.
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Settle in for the story of William Chandler, the senior SAA pilot who resigned earlier this year after it was discovered he had flown for more than 20 years with fraudulent paperwork.
If something is going to go wrong on a flight, history has shown that these are most certainly the pilots you want in the cockpit.