Posts Tagged ‘People’
Video Podcast #6: Crash of Do 228 in Himalayas, Crash of E190 in China
In this episode, I mostly talk about the crash of the Do228 in the Himalayas, and the crash of an Embraer 190 in Northeast China. There were 14 people on board the Do228, all of them died in the crash. The E190 has 96 people onboard at the time of the crash. The other thing ...
Passengers Aboard Emirates Flight EK530 To Kochi Injured
An Emirates 777-200 flying from Dubai to Kochi flew through some turbulence that was bad enough to injure 20 something people aboard the plane. There are conflicting reports about just how bad the turbulence was, how far the plane dropped and the exact number of people injured. Depending on where you read, the plane dropped ...
Somali Man Arrested For Trying to Blow Up Airliner in Somalia
I know what you’re thinking: “Holy cow, they still have airliner service in Somalia? They don’t even have a formal government over there!” That’s pretty much what I thought too. Apparently, at some point in November, a Somali man tried to board a Daalo Airlines plane that was flying from Mogasdishu to Dubai with a ...
How to turn away potential flight students
I was reading over on the AOPA blog about this incident where a potential flight student came to a top rated flight school lookingto get some flying lessons and was turned away. The student claimed that he could only afford to fly once a week, but was told that he needed to fly twice a ...
