Tag: passengers

Wife and Mother of Titan Passengers Talks About Waiting to Hear From the Doomed Submersible

BOSTON—Christine Dawood was on board a support vessel Sunday when she got word that communications were lost with the submersible carrying her husband and son, to view the Titanic wreckage. She didn’t initially understand what it meant that the Titan submersible had lost contact with the ship an hour and 45 minutes into its voyage,…


2 Passengers Arrested for Unruly, Drunken Behavior After Their Flight Is Diverted to Greece

THESSALONIKI, Greece—An easyJet flight from the United Kingdom to Turkey was diverted to Greece early Sunday after two passengers became drunk, unruly, and started shouting at fellow passengers and crew, authorities said. The two Russian passengers, both men aged 48 and 39, respectively, were arrested after the plane, on a scheduled flight from Manchester to…


New Zealand Airline Is Asking Passengers to Weigh in Before Their Flights

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand’s national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales before they board international flights. Air New Zealand says it wants to weigh 10,000 passengers during a monthlong survey so pilots can better know the weight and balance of their planes before takeoff. But the numbers from the scales won’t be…


Passengers Disarm Gunman Who Killed DC Employee, Shot Others

WASHINGTON—A man “randomly” brandishing a firearm shot three people, killing one, in a Wednesday morning rampage in the nation’s capital that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him. Authorities were still piecing together the chaotic series of events that left two people with gunshot wounds…


Southwest Airlines Is Sued for Not Providing Refunds After Meltdown

NEW YORK—Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when an operational meltdown led the carrier to cancel more than 15,000 flights late last month. In a proposed class action filed on Dec. 30 in New Orleans federal court, Eric Capdeville accused Southwest of…


Aviation Startup Picks Engine Designer for Supersonic Plane

DALLAS—Aviation startup Boom Technology says it will power supersonic passenger jets with engines designed by a company better known for making small engines used on drones and cruise missiles. Boom said Tuesday that Florida Turbine Technologies, or FTT, will design the engines. The company says the plane could be making test flights in 2026 and…


As Transit Fares Plummet, Federal Money Increases 95 Percent

In 2019, transit agencies across the United States for all modes of transportation took in 32.3 cents in fares for every dollar they spent on operating costs. Those transit agencies recovered 18.4 cents in fares on the dollar in 2020 and just 12.8 cents in 2021. Once the pandemic hit, transit operational costs increased while…


Million Dollar Weekend (1948)

Two people—a middle-aged stock broker and a young widow—are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they’ve both fled the state with secrets. Neither knows of the other’s situation, and they both turn to each other for help. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original…


3 Injured When Jetliner Crash Lands, Catches Fire in Miami

MIAMI—The crash landing of a jetliner that caught fire on the runway at Miami International Airport with 126 people on board had passengers screaming and panicking, witnesses said. “People were very frightened,” RED Air Flight 203 passenger Mauricio Davis told the Miami Herald. “People were grabbing the seats to keep from spinning around.” The fire…


Bus Falls Into Deep Ravine in Southwest Pakistan, Killing 22

QUETTA, Pakistan—A speeding bus veered off a narrow mountain road and plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 22 passengers including women and children, a government official said. The accident happened in the district of Qilla Saifullah in Baluchistan province. Deputy District Administrator Mohammad Qasim said rescuers transported…