Federal officials have filed charges against the man accused of assaulting a flight attendant and trying to escape a Frontier Airlines plane before passengers pinned him down while the plane was en route to Chicago earlier this week. Juan Gabriel Reyes, 51, of Chicago, is charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants, and […]
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Where are they now? Officials race to find 40 passengers who disembarked cruise ship stricken with hantavirus
Nearly 40 passengers exposed to a deadly hantavirus outbreak are believed to have walked off a cruise ship without contact tracing and scattered across multiple countries, leaving authorities scrambling to find them. Oceanwide Expeditions, the company that operates the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, said Thursday that 29 passengers disembarked on April 24, nearly two weeks after […]
Hero police officers storm inferno to save 5 passengers from fireball crash
Four Michigan police officers were injured Wednesday while heroically saving five people trapped inside a car that crashed into a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in Michigan. The crash happened just after noon near an intersection in Canton Township, a suburban area between Detroit and Ann Arbor, in southeast Michigan. Police officers rushed to the […]
Passengers refusing to wear headphones on flights could be kicked off aircraft: ‘It’s about time’
United Airlines has updated its passenger policy to address a common in-flight complaint: travelers who play audio or video without headphones. The airline revised its contract of carriage Feb. 27 to clarify that passengers are now required to use headphones when listening to content onboard, United confirmed in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We’ve […]
JetBlue flight makes emergency landing at Tampa Airport after sudden ‘drop in altitude’ injures passengers
A JetBlue flight traveling from Cancun to New Jersey was forced to make an emergency diversion to Tampa on Thursday after a sudden “drop in altitude” left several passengers injured, the air carrier told Fox News Digital. Flight 1230, an Airbus 320, was headed to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport from Cancun International Airport […]
CDC reports 19th cruise ship norovirus outbreak this year, affecting passengers and crew
The Center of Diseases Controls (CDC) has listed the 19th outbreak of norovirus on a cruise ship this year. Royal Caribbean International’s Serenade of the Seas cruise ship grappled with a norovirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 100 people. The ship traveled from San Diego to Miami. The cruise alerted the CDC about the outbreak […]
Ukrainian drone attack forces Russian commercial plane to divert to Estonia, passengers forbidden from disembarking
The aircraft, operated by Egyptian carrier AlMasria Universal Airlines, had departed from Sharm El Sheikh and landed in Tallinn at 5:33 a.m. local time. It was able to continue its journey to St. Petersburg nearly six hours later. – https://kyivindependent.com/tag/ukraine/rss/ This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com This article is taken based on Law no. 8/1996 […]
Mega-yacht with 400 passengers crashes into New York City dock, injuring nearly a dozen
Nearly a dozen people were injured on Saturday after a mega-yacht carrying hundreds of people struck a dock on the Hudson River in Manhattan, New York. Just after 4:15 p.m., the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) received a call for a yacht with about 400 people on board that struck a dock at 130th Street […]
CBP seizes massive haul of 150,000 illegal cigarettes from cruise passengers in California
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Southern California have reportedly seized a massive haul of illegally imported cigarettes intercepted from two cruise ship passengers last month. Officers assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport discovered roughly 150,000 cigarettes, stored in 749 cartons across 10 pieces of luggage, from a couple arriving from Ensenada, Mexico, […]
Multimillion-dollar luxury yacht sinks off Miami Beach, 32 passengers rescued
Thirty-two passengers were rescued Saturday evening after a multimillion-dollar luxury yacht started sinking off the coast of Miami Beach. The yacht — a 63-foot Tecnomar for Lamborghini that costs an eye-watering $4 million — was taking on water near Flagler Monument Island, a popular man-made island in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Multiple agencies, including the U.S. […]
Airlines eye weight-based fees: Will heavier passengers pay more?
In 2008, American Airlines became the first major U.S. carrier to charge for checked bags, introducing a $15 fee as part of a cost-cutting measure. Since then, other airlines have adopted similar fees, with prices steadily increasing over the years. Now, a new debate has emerged about whether airlines should charge passengers based on their […]
South Carolina bill would ban smoking inside cars while children are passengers
A bipartisan group of senators in South Carolina introduced a bill this week that would ban smoking in the car with a child present. South Carolina Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Democrat, said it is aimed at protecting kids from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke and is similar to legislation already in place in a […]