Tag Archives: American Airlines

The New York Times reports: A Kansas man is facing federal charges after he grabbed a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight on Tuesday night, threw the person to the ground and tried to drag them up an aisle, federal prosecutors said. The man, Julius Jordan Priester, 24, of Wichita, Kan., was on a plane flying from Bradley International Airport …

ABC News reports: An American Airlines plane caught fire at Denver International Airport in Colorado on Thursday, sending passengers down emergency slides and onto the wing of the aircraft. Twelve were people being taken to the hospital with minor injuries, airport officials said. The Boeing 737-800 plane was diverted to Denver shortly after departing from Colorado Springs, Colorado. While the …

ABC News reports: Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia. The passenger was traveling with his sister, who said her brother told her before the violent …

CNN reports: An American Airlines flight arriving at Ronald Reagan National Airport was forced to abort its landing to avoid another aircraft Tuesday, officials said, less than a month after a midair collision killed 67 people near the same airport and roughly 90 minutes before a close call between a passenger plane and a private jet in Chicago. The Tuesday …

The Daily Beast reports: American Airlines CEO Robert Isom released a video in the aftermath of Wednesday night’s crash above the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport, expressing “deep sorrow” over the ongoing tragedy. “This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, …

ABC News reports: A “technical issue” disrupted American Airlines flights nationwide early on Tuesday, the airline said, at the start of a busy Christmas Eve for travelers around the country. The Federal Aviation Administration said American requested a ground stop for all its flights. “We’re currently experiencing a technical issue with all American Airlines flights,” the airline wrote in a …

Hawaii News Now reports: An American Airlines flight apparently came dangerously close to the Koolau mountain range earlier this week. Aircraft tracker FlightAware shows Flight 298 departed from Honolulu for Los Angeles on Wednesday just after 12:30 a.m. The flight path was straight, but aviation experts said the route should take a hard right turn after takeoff. Audio released of …

Courthouse News reports: A Texas federal jury awarded American Airlines $9.4 million on Tuesday from a travel website behind the controversial “skiplagging” hack of booking cheaper tickets to a connecting city and then abandoning the subsequent flight on the ticket to a final destination. Jurors deliberated for several hours after five days of trial before U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman …

ABC News reports: An American Airlines flight was evacuated after the crew reported smoke in the cabin while the plane was parked at its gate at San Francisco International Airport, according to airport officials. The airline said the smoke came from a laptop in a passenger’s bag. Jan Jankai, a passenger on the flight with his father, told ABC News …

USA Today reports: An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing after an Oregon man reportedly exposed himself and urinated in the plane’s aisle, New York authorities said. The 25-year-old was arrested and charged with indecent exposure in connection to the July 3 incident midair, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York wrote in a press …

Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports: Video from passengers shows a man getting duct-taped after a flight to Chicago was disrupted Tuesday. American Airlines plane number 1219 was heading to O’Hare Airport from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The flight was headed to Chicago Tuesday afternoon. The plane made it up to 26,000 feet when a man onboard tried to open a plane door. …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: According to a source, the passenger was set to board American Airlines flight 9948 at 10 p.m. Friday from Rio de Janeiro to arrive at Miami International Airport early Saturday morning when he was heard screaming for “help” and “they’re killing me” in Spanish. Exclusive video obtained by Local 10 News shows that the man was …

ABC News reports: An American Airlines flight was seen drifting, dipping and bouncing as its crew struggled to make a safe landing at Heathrow International Airport in London Wednesday morning. American Airlines flight 134 from LAX to Heathrow was hit with a strong cross wind at about 11:40 a.m. local time as it tried to make a safe landing on …

Courthouse News reports: The U.S. Department of Transportation has fined American Airlines $4.1 million for not letting 5,821 passengers on 43 flights get off the plane during lengthy delays. Officials announced the fine Monday through a consent order, ending the department’s investigation of flights from 2018 to 2021. “This is the latest action in our continued drive to enforce the …

The Associated Press reports: American Airlines is suing a travel website that sells tickets that let people save money by exploiting a quirk in airline pricing. American sued Skiplagged Inc. in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, this week, accusing the website of deception. It threatened to cancel every ticket that Skiplagged has sold. In a practice called skiplagging and …

The Insider reports: An American Airlines flight heading to Philadephia was canceled Sunday after its door fell off while preparing to depart from Dublin Airport. Images shared on Twitter appear to show the Boeing 787 with a hole where the door should be — and the door on the tarmac below. In a statement shared with Insider, an American Airlines …

Gothamist reports: The National Transportation Safety Board has subpoenaed an American Airlines crew involved in a runway incident at John F. Kennedy Airport. The crew was onboard an American Airlines plane headed for London in mid-January when it crossed an active runway at JFK without air traffic clearance. The move caused a Delta Air Lines plane headed for Santo Domingo …

Los Angeles’s CBS affiliate reports: A passenger bus collided with a plane at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday, sending four people to the hospital, according to firefighters. The crash was reported around 10:15 p.m. The bus was involved in a low-speed crash with an American Airlines plane on a taxiway on the South Complex. According to the Los Angeles …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: American Airlines says a mechanical issue was responsible for strange sounds coming from a plane’s public announcement system during a flight from LAX to Dallas. A viral video posted on social media showed one passenger’s reaction to the strange sounds, describing it as “somewhere between an orgasm and vomiting.” In the video, passenger Emerson Collins …

One Mile At A Time reports: A few days ago I wrote about a bizarre thing going on with the intercoms of some American Airlines jets. There’s now actual video and audio footage of this, and it’s even stranger than I could have imagined. The first report was from an American Airlines Boeing 737-800, where there were repeated hacking, moaning, …