A four hour computer network failure was resolved earlier this morning, but not after creating a long list of delayed and cancelled flights through out the United States and even affecting International flights. 

The Federal Aviation Administration said that a software configuration problem with a network router was to blame for the outage of the flight [...]

Delta Airlines has suspended a group of Pilots for two incidents in two days that occurred near the end of their respective flights. 

The first incident was with a Delta Airlines Boeing 767 arriving in Atlanta from Rio de Janeiro in the pre-dawn hours.  The pilots were cleared for a normal landing on the usual 27R [...]

American Airlines very last A300 aircraft landed for the last time Tuesday at New York’s JFK Airport.  American Airlines had decided to retire the 34 remaining A300 planes as the airline decided to reduce capacity.  These were the only Airbus planes in the airlines extensive fleet and they had been in service for 21 years.

Airbus originally [...]

Sun Country Airlines had a delay on Sunday where passengers were held on the tarmac on the plane for almost six hours.  This is not something new.  We have all heard the horror stories of those awful delays with holds usually due to weather situations.  But Sun Country seems to want to get in front [...]

Delta Connection carrier Mesaba was blamed by the Department of Transportation initial findings as the airline to blame for ExpressJet’s Continental Express flight that suffered a 6-hour tarmac delay last week in Rochester, MN. 

The report stated that the ExpressJet captain made repeated efforts to obtain assistance from the Mesaba ground personnel that refused to service [...]

A United Airlines Boeing 767 flight from Brazil to Chicago was diverted early in the morning to Miami on July 14 because ‘a flight attendant was not respecting his authority.’  The flight, #842 from Sao Paulo, was in Miami for about an hour while the flight attendant was removed from the aircraft. 

Now, I can understand [...]

It appears that all 168 passengers on board an Iranian airliner died when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeiny Airport.  The Caspian Airlines plane, a Russian built Tupolev TU-154M, was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia, crashed about 15 minutes into the flight killing 153 passengers and 15 crew members.  Reports [...]

A Southwest Airlines 737-300 was forced to make an emergency landing Charleston, West Virginia after a 1-foot by 1-foot hole opened up in the passenger cabin.  The aircraft lost pressure, and the pilots immediately descended and made the emergency landing. 

A passenger described the hole above his seat as about 1-foot by 1-foot and said that [...]

Since the Air France crash of an Airbus A330 over the Atlantic earlier this month that killed all 228 passengers and crew on board, there have been two incidents of failing altitude and airspeed indicators on A330’s. 

One incident was on a flight between the U.S. and Brazil on a TAM Airlines A330 from Miami to [...]