Smokin’ plane brings Gatwick to standstill

Gatwick Airport was forced to close, on Friday 24th July, after a plane made an emergency landing.
The Flybe Dash 8 aircraft, with 46 passengers on board, was en route to Cardiff from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
It is believed that it put down at the West Sussex airport because of a smoke problem.
“I could see there was smoke in [...]

Guitarist gets fitting revenge on United Airlines

Did you hear the one about the guitarist who was so appalled by the dismissive attitude of one of the world’s largest airlines that he wrote a song about it and posted it on YouTube? The result was that he became a hero to many, while U.A were humiliated into an apology.
No? Well watch the [...]

Jet Lag?

Nearly everyone suffers from jet lag when they fly. But could jet lag actually be down to chemical poisoning?
We all assume that the half dead feeling we sometimes have when getting off a flight is down to jet lag and is caused by the disruption to our body clocks – especially when flying long distances [...]

Boeing 767 forced to land as cockpit fills with smoke

Looking through Google today I noticed there have been more and more smoke related incidents on aircraft. Frankly, at the moment, I can’t keep up!
Here’s one from 1 April 09 – and it certainly wouldn’t have been an April fool for those on board.
An airliner that reportedly had smoke in its cockpit and engine trouble [...]

Boeing 747 fills with smoke. Passengers struggle to breathe

British Airways was flying a team of engineers from London to Phoenix on Saturday to inspect a Boeing 747 that filled with smoke the previous night and forced hundreds of passengers to evacuate.
Airline spokesman John Lampl says the 298 passengers who were on board Flight 288 as it prepared to take off late Friday were [...]

U.S attourney Mike Ferrara comments on toxic cabin air lawsuit

Glad to see that Mike is highlighting the Terry Williams case on this website.
Read his article here

Contaminated airliner air: Flight attendant files lawsuit against Boeing

Back in April 2007 flight attendant, Terry Williams, noticed a “misty haze type of smoke” on Flight 843 as it taxied toward a gate in Dallas, Texas.
Little did she know that the haze was caused by contaminated air caused by a leak in the plane’s engines – known as a ‘fume event’. Little did [...]

Airliner life jackets: Why not face masks too?

Most airline passengers will be aware that they have a relatively expensive life jacket under their seat, just in case the aircraft has to make an emergency landing in water. (The life jacket comes complete with whistle and little light for attracting attention).
Now, how often do you think these life jackets been required? Well, I’ll [...]

Blood donors needed: Strictly no pilots

I’d always given blood, from a young age and didn’t see how being a pilot would change that.
I’m intelligent enough to know that you don’t donate blood shortly before flying several trusting passengers to their destination. The after effects of donating blood are rare, but you don’t want to take chances like that.
Anyway, I found [...]