Tag Archives: Flight

The nascent Premier League table already looks worryingly familiar, with Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United rushing to the top after the first round of games and unlikely to budge far until May.  The financial disparity between the have and have nots of the English top flight means there are unlikely to …

A black and ethnic minority (BAME) couple with a three-month-old baby accused British Airways staff of “discrimination” when they were not allowed to board their flight and a white passenger was.  Kiran and Dignity Moyo, from Kent, were due to travel from Amsterdam Schiphol to London Gatwick with their baby Noah. They had yet to …

LONDON — The cabin of a British Airways flight filled with what appeared to be white smoke as it prepared for landing in Spain on Monday afternoon, prompting the airline to evacuate more than 170 passengers, with three taken to the hospital. In an emailed statement on Tuesday, the airline …

Professional golfer Thorbjorn Olesen has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female passenger while she was asleep on a flight back to London. The 29-year-old, a Ryder Cup golfer and current world No 62, allegedly molested the woman on a British Airways flight from Memphis to Heathrow while …

A flight instructor and a student have been killed in a plane crash in Texas. Dallas-based instructor Francesca Norris, 25, and 22-year-old student pilot Yu Qiu were killed when their twin-engine Piper plane crashed about a quarter of mile from the runway in Gainesville in northern Texas. The plane caught fire …

A gay woman who was unlawfully deported from the UK was blocked from returning to the UK after the British government failed to issue her with documentation to board the flight. The 26-year-old, known only as PN, was told by airline staff that she could not board the flight scheduled to bring her …

LONDON — Last week, the world learned that Franky Zapata could fly, thanks to a dazzling Bastille Day performance on his hoverboard in Paris. On Thursday, as he tried to cross the English Channel, the world learned that he can also swim. Mr. Zapata’s highly anticipated attempt to cross the …