The flight from Fort Myers to Boston had to make an emergency landing in Orlando
Aviation
Plane Lands In Orlando After Windshield Cracked
No injuries reported
11 People Survive Collision at 12,000 Feet
On planes loaded with skydivers, one pilot landed safely, and everyone else bailed out
Southwest Airlines Fires Pilot Who Injured 10 in Rough Landing
He landed the aircraft nose-first at LaGuardia in July
FAA to Mull Looser Rules for Phones on Planes
Passengers might start having more fun under 10,000 feet
Sick Pilot Who Prompted Emergency Landing Has Died
Plane Forced To Land When He Got Sick Mid-Air
The Awfulness of Airlines Is an Opening for Trains and Buses
The glamour of flying is long gone, replaced by the “cattle-herding, fee-crazy airline business” of today, as Mark Gerchick, author of a new book about the airline business called Full Upright and Locked Position, puts it.
Training Blast Kills Seven Marines
Seven Marines were killed late Monday in Nevada when a 60mm mortar round apparently exploded prematurely inside its firing tube during a live-fire exercise.
The accompanying photograph shows a Marine loading a 60mm round at …
The Army Peers Inside Its Minds…
The long-awaited Army Task Force Report on Behavioral Health, here, came out late last Friday. This was the report on the alleged mis-diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder among troops at Madigan Army Medical Center, the …
War Lit
Our best writers on war were nobodies before they got a break.
This is doubly true of veterans, from Hemingway and Joseph Heller to Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers, author of 2012’s celebrated The Yellow Birds, whose …
Navy Pilots Push Drone Off Aircraft Carrier!
Not really! Just looks that way as the Navy conducts deck-handling trials of the experimental X-47B aboard the USS Harry S Truman.
Airline Introduces Perk Passengers Actually Want—And It’s Free
Calls for Phantom Defense Cuts Must Stop
Fiscal restraint is en vogue and increasingly the cover many are using to push other agendas. Republicans spent a week in Tampa monitoring America’s mounting national debt at their recent convention. Democrats included a call …