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The astronauts of Apollo 8 may hold the record for celebrating the most remote Christmas ever as their capsule orbited the moon on December 24, 1968. Read More…
It’s the skidding season, clearly. Assoiated Press reports that an American Airlines Boeing 737 carrying 154 people skidded off the runway while landing during heavy rain at Kingston Airport on Tuesday night. According to AP, 44 people were hurt, 4 seriously. Read More…
In the harsh Russian winter of 1942, the German army was besieged at Stalingrad, their swift advance across the steppes halted by the bitter cold and fanatical Russian resistance. The entire German Sixth Army was surrounded by a ring of steel. The Germans’ supply lines were cut and the army was starving to death. Read More…
In October 1956, a young German doctor named Hannes Lindemann set off from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in a double Klepper faltboot – a wood and canvas folding kayak – to sail and paddle alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Read More…
As we totter off to friends and family for a bit of Christmas cheer, and lord knows we need some of that this year, I tought I’d dig up some old stories from other Christmases past to remind us how bad things might have been. Read More…
At least 34 people are missing and nearly 30 000 sheep and cattle have drowned after the Panamanian-flagged livestock carrier Danny F II rolled over and sank 11 miles off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday night. Read More…
Is the world really digging itself out of the financial crisis? Well, the airline industry – and 13 million jobless Americans – would probably say “no”. Read More…
In an effort to calculate the average weight of passengers and their hand luggage, South African Airways has started its Voluntary Passenger Weighing survey at O.R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Read More…
It flies!
At 10:15 local time this morning in Seville in Spain, the Airbus A400M military transport prototype took to the air for the first time. Read More…
In a word, no, although the pilot needs to be sharp and have his finger all the way out. The Airlink accident at George is unfortunate, especially for the airline, coming, as it does, after a series of incidents at the carrier. It could also have been much worse. Read More…
