Popstar Bebe Rexha has used social media to share an allegation she had a verbal exchange that amounted to a “hate crime” with a Lufthansa airport employee that left her hysterically crying.
A 63-year-old German man died mid-flight from Bangkok after he began to spit up “litres of blood”, fellow passengers said.
Seven passengers on a flight to Europe late Wednesday were transported to hospitals when the plane hit “significant turbulence,” leaving the aircraft’s interior trashed.
The German government have utilised a loophole to allow ministers to escape their own COVID lockdown rules forcing people to wear masks on flights.
German airline Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines have stopped making “ladies and gentlemen” announcements on flights to become more gender-neutral.
British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency order on Thursday night banning some U.S.-based air carriers from flying through Iranian airspace, including parts of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Several international carriers quickly announced precautions of their own.
The boss of Irish airline Ryanair has threatened to ground flights to make British voters “rethink” Brexit and prove that “everything will fundamentally change” when the UK leave the bloc.
A German government report reveals that airline pilots in 222 cases this year have prevented the deportation of failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants because they refused to fly them home.
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Lufthansa airline passengers from Frankfurt to Belgrade were forced to act after a man screaming he wanted “to join Allah” attempted to open a plane door mid-flight. The incident occurred yesterday when the man – a Jordanian with an American passport
On Thursday, after meeting in Paris with relatives of the victims from the Germanwings plane crash in the Alps last March, prosecutor Brice Robin divulged some more details about the investigation to the public.
German police are investigating a report from Lufthansa, parent company of Germanwings, that a woman tried to scam free tickets from the airline by claiming to be the cousin of a teacher killed in the Flight 9525 crash.
It looks as if we have an answer to one of this morning’s lingering questions about Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who evidently seized control of his plane and drove it into the Alps, killing 150 people. Lufthansa earlier divulged that Lubitz took a long break from his pilot training. Now the UK Daily Mail has more details about that episode, saying he suspended training in 2008 “because he was suffering from depression and burnout.”
Last night, we learned that black-box audio recordings appeared to show the pilot of the doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 had been locked out of the cockpit and was attempting to gain entry – politely at first, but acting with increasing urgency as the plane descended, until at the end it sounded as if he was trying to smash the armored cockpit door down.
Germanwings cancelled numerous flights after crew members refused to fly due to the tragic crash of Flight 9252 in the French Alps.
A black box recovered from the scene and pulverized pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
