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Habib Hussain moved to Medina, Saudi Arabia six months ago to get a job providing airline services through a private agency. Hussien was working aboard an Air India Airbus A330 prepping to head to Jaipur, India. He was not happy with his current situation and wanted to go home, however the company he worked for […]
Yesterday the second Boeing 787 test plane, ZA002, made its second test flight back to where it was built. The flight was from Boeing Field (Located in South Seattle) to Paine Field (located in Everett, WA). The flight was required since there was debris found in ZA002’s fuel tank after its first flight on December […]
Preview what the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will look like in different airline liveries (scroll down a little bit for the custom liveries). From Aeroflot to VLAC. It is great seeing the different designs in 3D on the computer screen, but I can’t wait to see them in person (of course you can already see ANA’s […]
Just getting drunk, unruly, and causing a flight to divert just doesn’t seem to do it for me anymore. Well a Virginia resident, Muhammed Abu Tahir is taking it to the next level. He was on Air Tran flight 39 from Atlanta to San Francisco and decided to have a few (and by a few […]
This is not a photo shop, but a photograph of a Qantas Boeing 747-300 with a little extra cargo — a 5th engine. When a Qantas airplane needs a replacement engine or to have one worked on, sometimes they will attached the 5th engine onto a Boeing 747 and fly it without power to its […]