What Are Airline Great Circle Routes?
Jet streams: The most common reason for deviating from the straightest route is that pilots adjust their flight paths to take ...
The Mirror19d
UK's most turbulent flight path is 3,462-miles but pilots take urgent action
One of which arrives right here in the UK and happens to be one of the most popular flight routes in the world. The “Billion Dollar Route” is reportedly one of the world’s most popular ...
Daily Mail20d
Top secret US spy plane is caught making mysterious trip to cartel stronghold
The flight path of a US spy plane shows it conducted a mysterious mission over the Gulf of California in Mexico this week. Tracking data captured the US Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint ...
The New Zealand Herald20d
Secrets from Air NZ crew: Behind the scenes on an Auckland-to-NYC flight
While Air NZ passengers on a direct Auckland-to-New York flight get to sit back and enjoy the service and entertainment, there’s a lot going on ‘backstage’ for the crew. Grant Bradley takes ...
Daily Mail22d
Pictured: The world's shortest escalator, which has just five steps and a journey time of six seconds
According to Oddity Central, pedestrians who hop onboard must still use a small flight of stairs to reach ... which recognises it as the world's 'shortest escalator', an honour it has held ...
The Independent23d
Air traffic controller 'left work early' before deadly crash as helicopter's flight height comes into question
A single controller was left to handle the air traffic of planes and helicopters flying over the airspace when two people would typically be monitoring both flight paths, sources told NBC.
Yahoo News UK23d
Netanyahu's Unusual Flight Path to Washington Avoids ICC Arrest Warrants, Report Says
Israeli newspaper Maariv said that Netanyahu took “an unusual flight path” bypassing much of continental Europe. According to Maariv, flights from Israel to Washington would usually pass over the ...
The Washington Post25d
FAA restricts flight path used by helicopter in fatal collision
It shifts back to 200 feet, then shifts again to 300 feet, where the helicopter, carrying a crew of three, converged with American Eagle Flight 5342 ... Barges are in route from Virginia Beach ...
Bloomberg L.P.25d
Army Helicopter’s Altitude Seen as Factor in DC Crash Probe
The flight path of an Army helicopter before it collided with an American Airlines Group Inc. passenger jet this week above Washington is emerging as a key line of inquiry in the probe of the ...
Orlando Sentinel25d
Doomed American Airlines flight helmed by Daytona-area man whose childhood dreams looked to skies
It appeared the military aircraft flew outside its approved flight path and at a higher altitude than allowed. The crash investigation is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board ...
The Sun25d
Litany of errors behind DC jet crash emerge – wrong flight path, ‘juggling two jobs’ & notorious ‘helicopter alley’
A CATALOGUE of errors, including staffing issues and the use of the wrong flight path, could be to blame for the American Airlines plane crash. Questions are being raised over how the jet collided ...