Hacker News with Generative AI: Air Travel

Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is "Only a Matter of Time" (propublica.org)
The deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane, the flight attendant recalled. A little girl had collapsed. She had a high fever and was taking ragged, frantic breaths.

Air Travel, Immigration, Safety

12 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 3 comments

Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 initiated a go-around to avoid collision (faa.gov)
The information below is preliminary and subject to change. News media with questions on other topics may contact us at pressoffice@faa.gov.

Aviation, Safety, Accidents, Air Travel

13 points by impish9208 36 days ago | 0 comments

Delta offers $30k to passengers in Canada plane flip (theguardian.com)
Delta Air Lines is offering passengers of a jet that caught fire and flipped over on a Toronto runway $30,000 each – “no strings attached”.

Air Travel, Accidents, Canada, Delta Airlines, Compensation

15 points by pqtyw 41 days ago | 14 comments

Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport (cbc.ca)
A plane crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, injuring at least 15 passengers and closing down the airport's runways.

Air Travel, Accidents, Canada

575 points by jaredwiener 44 days ago | 705 comments

America desperately needs more air traffic controllers (cnn.com)

Air Travel, Aviation, Transportation, Workforce, United States

346 points by mooreds 57 days ago | 641 comments

Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows (cbsnews.com)
Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the controllers' union, according to a CBS News analysis of FAA data.

Air Travel, Aviation, Transportation, United States

184 points by rustoo 60 days ago | 226 comments

Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing (bloomberg.com)
A Jeju Air Co. plane landing in South Korea crashed on an airport runway and caught fire, resulting in more than 170 people dead or missing.

Aviation Accidents, South Korea, Air Travel

240 points by toomuchtodo 95 days ago | 251 comments

Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers (wsj.com)
Jetliners being accidentally blasted out of the sky has become the leading cause of commercial-aviation deaths over recent years, marking a new trend running counter to an otherwise improving safety picture.

Aviation Safety, Military, Air Travel

585 points by JumpCrisscross 97 days ago | 431 comments

Russia hit flight J2-8243, then jammed electronics and denied permission to land (bsky.app)

Russia, Ukraine, Air Travel, Technology, International Relations

16 points by martythemaniak 97 days ago | 1 comments

Is Weight-Based Pricing the Key to Sustainable Air Travel? (unh.edu)
UNH researcher investigates public perception of controversial policies

Air Travel, Sustainability, Pricing, Public Perception

8 points by geox 104 days ago | 0 comments

Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures (atlantanewsfirst.com)
With a single sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended a nationwide program that had seized untold millions in cash from airline passengers without arrests.

Air Travel, Law Enforcement, Justice System, Corruption

206 points by soraminazuki 116 days ago | 78 comments

Two US airline jets struck by gunfire over Haiti's capital (cnn.com)

Air Travel, Haiti, Crime

8 points by marban 142 days ago | 0 comments

The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967 (medium.com)
On the 3rd of May 2006, an Armenian Airbus A320 on approach to the Russian resort city of Sochi slammed into the Black Sea amid darkness and fog, killing all 113 passengers and crew.

Aviation Accidents, Air Travel, History, Russia

65 points by mathgenius 148 days ago | 39 comments

Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage (avweb.com)
A little-known 2016 study by Princeton University researchers is getting attention again for a different take on why airline passengers are so grumpy these days.

Air Travel, Sociology, Social Inequality

32 points by thunderbong 186 days ago | 46 comments

Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate – but they carry on (nature.com)
An overwhelming majority of survey respondents at a top research university agree that air travel contributes to climate change, but many — especially professors and PhD students — often fly to conferences anyway, according to a study1 published last month in Global Environmental Change1.

Climate Change, Academia, Air Travel, Conferences

36 points by gnabgib 201 days ago | 55 comments

Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common? (flightradar24.com)

Air Travel, Aviation, Weather, Safety

253 points by redtriumph 279 days ago | 156 comments

Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug (independent.co.uk)

Aviation Safety, Software Bugs, Boeing, Air Travel

161 points by xrayarx 299 days ago | 65 comments

Air Canada's Boeing 777 trails flames on take-off (twitter.com)

Air Travel, Aviation Safety, Boeing 777

36 points by woranl 299 days ago | 13 comments

Air Canada ordered to pay couple $2k. Instead, it's taking them to court (cbc.ca)