More than 60 people were believed to be aboard the Boeing 737-524, a Sriwijaya Air flight that had taken off from Jakarta. Officials said they believed they found part of the wreckage.
Tag: Airlines and Airplanes
Boeing 737 Max Resumes Flying U.S. Passengers After 2-Year Halt
American Airlines used the plane, which was grounded in March 2019 after two fatal crashes, on a flight from Miami to New York.
Airlines Gear Up to Transport Vaccines That Could Revive Travel
Planes are one part of an elaborate supply chain to move billions of doses of vaccines around the world.
E.U. Reveals Openness to a No-Deal Brexit
The measures, which require British agreement, would cover air and road travel, freight and fishing for six months, to prevent immediate chaos should the transition period end without a trade pact.
He Escaped Death as a Kamikaze Pilot. 70 Years Later, He Told His Story.
Kazuo Odachi is one of the last living members of a group never meant to survive. He wants to remind Japan that before its modern success came the sacrifices of the young pilots who gave their lives.
Appeal in Lockerbie Bombing Reaches Scotland’s Highest Court
The family of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner that killed 270 people, is seeking to clear his name, although he died in 2012.
How One Airline’s Pandemic Hurt Becomes Everyone’s Pain
Virgin Atlantic doesn’t act alone to fly passengers. It relies on a constellation of companies employing people around the globe — all of whom are touched by the disappearance of travelers.
Glimmers of Hope for a Winter With Tropical Travel
Canada’s public health experts are researching approaches to testing and quarantine that could make travel abroad more feasible.
Qatar Apologizes for Airport Strip Searches and Pursues Charges
The government called the invasive examinations of women on 10 flights at Doha’s airport this month “wholly inconsistent with Qatar’s culture and values.”
Qatar ‘Regrets’ Strip-Searches Over Abandoned Baby
Women were pulled from multiple flights and strip-searched, the Australian government said, after a newborn baby was found in an airport restroom.