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Philadelphia: An engine on a Southwest Airlines flight with 149 people aboard exploded and broke apart in mid-air on Tuesday, killing one passenger and nearly sucking another out of a shattered window, according to airline and federal authorities and witness and media accounts. The plane, a Boeing 737-700 which was bound to Dallas from New York, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.
Just look at the left engine of Southwest Flight 1380, and it's obvious that something terrible befell that machine. Whatever happened inside that complicated system of fuel and fire and whirling components, it resulted in the decompression of the cabin at about 32,000 feet and, later, the death of a passenger after she nearly flew out a window.
Almost 100 million U.S.-operated airline flights, carrying several billion people, had taken off and landed safely over a nine-year span since the last time a passenger died in an accident in the country. That record for avoiding fatalities - which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation - was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines Co.
One person died and seven others were injured when a battered Southwest Airlines jet with a blown engine and smashed window made a perilous emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 out of New York had 143 passengers and a crew of five onboard, Southwest said in a statement.
Sun Country Airlines now says it plans to reimburse passengers left stranded in Mexico after the carrier canceled its last flights of the season following a late-season blizzard in Minnesota. Instead of extending its schedule or sending charters to bring home about 250 passengers from the Mexican resort cities of Cabo San Lucas and Mazatln, Sun Country opted instead to refund fliers' fares and then told them they were on their own to find a new way home.
XTRA Airways has operated Boeing 737 aircraft in its charter fleet flying sports teams, rock bands, relief flights from Caribbean Islands including Puerto Rico, scheduled service between Saipan in the U.S. Mariana Islands and China, sub-service for tour operators within Europe, deportees for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and most recently supplying two highly customized executive 737 aircraft for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. XTRA Airways has an impeccable safety record, is one of the few charter carriers having scheduled service authority, is certified to fly within Europe, and is authorized by the U.S. and China to conduct scheduled service between the two countries.
In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33. In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.
On March 3, 1931, "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution. In 1791, Congress passed a measure taxing distilled spirits; it was the first internal revenue act in U.S. history.
Hawaii, Feb 14: A United Airlines plane landed made a safe landing in Honolulu on Tuesday after one of the engine cover of the flight came off mid-air. The pilots followed all necessary protocols to safely land the aircraft, a report states.
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa and Goldstar Air, multiple award winner and wholly owned Ghanaian airline have signed an agreement for strategic partnership to use Ethiopian"s Maintenance Repair Organization . The MRO of Ethiopian Airlines has over 1,800 fully qualified technical staff and state of the art maintenance hangar and paint hangar facility certified by competent regulatory bodies like Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority , Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency .
Goldstar Air, a wholly Ghanaian owned airline is working to have its own Maintenance Repair Organization and Training School in Tamale soon. In the interim, the airline and Ethiopian Airlines have signed an agreement for it to use Ethiopian Airline's MRO to assist Goldstar Air.
US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on 12 January, 2018, for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago: AFP Air Force One , the military-spec jet liner that ferries President Donald Trump around the globe, is to receive a $24m refrigerator upgrade. Boeing was handed the contract to design and install two gigantic chillers on the aircraft that will store enough food to keep crew members, travelling journalists, Mr Trump and his advisers going for weeks at a time.
Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane currently used by President Donald Trump. Both of those units, which are used to store food, were installed on the plane when it was originally delivered in 1990, according to the Air Force.
Through the Foreign Military Sale process, the U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $279 million contract for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's first KC-46 tanker and logistics support, marking the aircraft's first international sale. Japan chose Boeing's KC-46 tanker over competitors following its KC-X aerial refueling competition.
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Bays typically filled with Delta aircraft were occupied by vintage military aircraft - along with the airline's newly re-painted " Spirit of Freedom " jet. The exhibit is part of Delta's annual Veterans Day event, in which the airline honored its 10,000 employee veterans as well as the 3,000 employees who are active duty military.