Category Archive: Off the Runway

Pregnant Turtles Delay Air Traffic at JFK – NYCAviation

Pregnant turtles native to Jamaica Bay have once again emerged to nest on land, marching onto one of the runways at John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday morning and causing what one Twitter user called, “[the] cutest delay ever!” Diamond terrapins have been known to climb ashore around this time of year to lay their …

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Baggy pants lead to arrest of US Airways passenger – USATODAY.com

A 20-year-old man booked on US Airways was eventually arrested after he refused to pull up his baggy pants, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Deshon Marman, a football player at the University of New Mexico, was boarding a flight in San Francisco on Wednesday when the incident happened. That’s when The Associated Press says a …

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F-16s Escort Flight After Onboard Fight – Airwise News

Fighter jets escorted a United Airlines plane back to Washington’s Dulles Airport after a fight broke out between a two passengers on the flight bound for Ghana, officials said on Tuesday. Police met the two passengers at the gate when flight 990 landed back at Dulles early Monday morning, but neither passenger was injured and …

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TSA employee should have screened self, sneaks aboard JetBlue flight – OPShots.net

Thirty year old Carlos Rodriguez, a screener for the TSA at New York’s JFK airport, apparently believed his space-available buddy pass from a JetBlue friend entitled him to a carte-blanche ride on an employee jump-seat during a flight to Santo Domingo last Saturday, May 14th. Approximately forty-five minutes into flight 819,  a scheduled service from …

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