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Comparing the best parts of flying the Boeing 747

This video looks at what professional pilots consider the three best things about flying the Boeing 747. Mentour Pilot and ...
New Statesman

This England: Unscheduled pit stop

Months before 9/11, a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it. How do you measure the cost of a ...
Airways

Explained: Inside the Flight Deck’s Post-Flight Shutdown

When an airliner turns off its engines at the gate or ramp, the flight deck doesn’t simply go dark and stay that way.
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32 pilots share the scariest moments they survived while passengers stayed blissfully unaware

Flying is the safest form of transportation there is. But just because you’re statistically more likely to survive a plane ...
Flightglobal

Fatal 747 excursion probe focuses on thrust-lever movement for engine with inoperative reverser

Preliminary investigation into the AirACT Boeing 747-400 freighter excursion at Hong Kong have found that, after touchdown, forward thrust increased on the outboard right-hand engine – the ...
Jalopnik

Why Boeing Noses Are So Pointy And Airbus Noses Are So Round

Boeing and Airbus build most of the most common airliners flying today, and the easiest way to tell them apart — in the absence of markings, of course — is to look at their respective noses. Boeing ...
CNN

Off-duty pilot who tried to cut a flight’s engines midair won’t serve prison time, judge rules

A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit will serve no prison time, a federal judge ruled Monday, bringing an end ...
CBS News

Joseph Emerson, off-duty pilot who tried to cut plane's engines midflight, sentenced to time served, supervised release

Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down a commercial plane's engines midflight in 2023 while traveling off duty in the cockpit's jump seat, was sentenced Monday in ...
PC Gamer

Thermaltake View 390 Air review

Thermaltake has taken the concept of a fish tank PC case and turned it on its side. It's a smart solution offering more direct airflow from the front and lots of options for cooling otherwise. Plus, ...
Yahoo! Sports

Jason Williams shares how Vlade Divac made a teammate work off $70k gambling debt: "From the cockpit to the back, the whole flight"

It's common for NBA players to owe each other money because they often play card games to pass the time during team flights. Typically, these debts are settled upon landing. Some don't pay immediately ...
Decider

Is Whoopi Goldberg Still On ‘The View’? Has ‘The View’ Been Taken Off The Air?

Discover What’s Streaming On: After Joy Behar missed several days of The View due to a foot injury, viewers may have been disappointed to find Whoopi Goldberg missing from the ABC broadcast Monday ...
KCCI Des Moines

Off-duty pilot who tried to cut a flight’s engines midair won't serve prison time, judge rules

A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in ...