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[Link] Passengers escorted off Qantas flight by police after Sydney airport security breach
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
All passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney Wednesday evening were escorted off the plane by police to the unscreened area of Melbourne airport, after one passenger managing to bypass screening. Just got off Qantas flight QF487, Sydney to Melbourne.
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[Link] These Bose Headphones Helped Cure My Airplane Ear
Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com
I’m not going to sugar coat it: Flying sucks. The hell of getting to the airport, TSA screaming at you to take your shoes off, endless delays, the sad food selection (with the exception of free Biscoff cookies), turbulence—the list goes on.
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[Link] The Antonov An-225 Seems To Have Been Destroyed After All
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones.
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[Link] Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home
Read: 31/1/2022 www.cnn.com
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home.
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[Link] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.
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[Link] Aerodynamic Buoyant Blimp Budges Into Low Cost Cargo Commerce
Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com
Before the Wright Brothers powered their way across the sands of Kitty Hawk or Otto Lilienthal soared from the hills of Germany, enveloping hot air in a balloon was the only way to fly. Concepts were refined as time went by, and culminated in the grand Zeppelins of the 1930’s.
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[Link] Australians to be able to travel to the UK, US, Italy, Greece and more without having to quarantine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.9news.com.au
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has provided a list of countries in which Australians can travel to without having to spend time in mandatory isolation.
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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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[Link] ‘The only way’: Australians stranded in New Zealand charter private jets to get home
Read: 28/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians desperate to get home from New Zealand are going to extreme lengths to do so, forking out tens of thousands of dollars to charter private jets.
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[Link] A Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 was able to land in and take off from Kabul on Monday despite chaos at the airport
Read: 18/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com
While military and civilian aircraft were scrambling to get out of Kabul, Afghanistan, one Turkish Airlines plane was trying to get in. Turkish Airlines flew what is likely its last flight to Kabul on Monday amid an exodus of civilians following the Taliban's rapid advance through the capital.
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[Link] Human Remains Found in Landing Gear of Kabul Evacuation Plane
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
Human remains have been found in the landing gear of a U.S. Air Force plane that took off from the Kabul airport, after Afghans were seen clambering onto evacuating aircraft in a desperate attempt to flee the country.
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[Link] How was Tasmania's new COVID case allowed into the state?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tasmania has recorded its first COVID case in hotel quarantine in 238 days. It means potentially dozens of northern Tasmanians have been forced into self-isolation and questions are being asked about how he came to be in Tasmania in the first place.
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[Link] Entire Plane Evacuated Over a Teen’s Moronic AirDrop Prank
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A United Airlines flight headed out of San Fransisco International Airport was hurriedly deboarded Thursday afternoon after staff aboard the plane announced an urgent threat.
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[Link] Virgin CEO calls for open borders, even if ‘some people may die’
Read: 17/5/2021 www.smh.com.au
Virgin Australia’s chief executive has called for the country’s borders to be re-opened before the stated goal of mid-2022, saying it made long-term sense even if “some people may die”.
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