A former Boeing staffer who once raised concerns about the company’s production standards has been found dead in the US.
John Barnett, 62, was found dead in his truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, his lawyer said Monday – seven years after he retired following a 32-year career.
The ex-quality manager at Boeing’s North Charleston plant died from a ‘self-inflicted’ wound, cops in Charleston said, adding that they were still investigating.
Barnett’s death came during a break
If you’ve followed my show regularly over the past few months, you know that I’ve done a couple of monologues on the aviation industry.
The frequency of near-disasters in the sky has increased dramatically in recent years, and as I’ve noted, the increase began around the time that the Obama administration began a concerted effort to “diversify” the FAA, including air traffic control. According to a NASA database, which tracks self-reported data from pilots, we now average roughly five near-misses
Dies ist der Moment, in dem Prinz Harry in die Ruhmeshalle „Living Legends of Aviation“ aufgenommen wurde, als er seiner verstorbenen Mutter, Prinzessin Diana, Tribut zollte.
Der 39-Jährige wurde auf der Bühne als „lebende Legende, der Herzog von Sussex, Prinz Harry“ begrüßt, bevor ihm Gastgeber John Travolta eine Medaille überreichte.
Es ist das erste Mal, dass er in der Öffentlichkeit gesehen wird, seit die Nachricht von der Bauchoperation von Prinzessin Kate und der Diagnose einer vergrößerten Prostata bei König Charles
Take a domestic flight in the UK and it’s highly likely you’ll jump on an aircraft operated by British Airways, easyJet or Ryanair.
If you’re flexible with when you can travel, it’s possible to find similarly dirt-cheap ticket prices for all three carriers. But is price where the similarity ends?
I’m the MailOnline Travel Editor and I put them head to head in a mystery shopper battle to find out… flying economy with British Airways to Manchester, then with easyJet
Virgin Galactic will send its first fee-paying civilian to the edge of space on Thursday.
The company will live stream the flight from launch to landing and below you can find out how to watch.
A flight with Virgin Galactic starts and finishes at Spaceport America in New Mexico and lasts about 70 minutes. The trip begins with the passengers traveling aboard the VSS Unity plane, which itself is carried to 50,000 feet by another aircraft, VMS Eve.
In this episode, we unpack what to expect in Brussels this August as EU decision making grinds to a halt. Also, we explore how extreme weather in Europe is weighing against tourism demands, and how politicians are responding.
Host Suzanne Lynch is joined by Nicholas Vinocur, POLITICO’s editor at large, and EU politics reporter Gregorio Sorgi. They explain the European Commission’s “designated survivor” concept, which keeps the legislative body afloat thanks to a few (unlucky) commissioners stuck in the Berlaymont.
The European Union is set to slap on a fresh sanctions package against Belarus after EU ambassadors okayed the raft of measures at a meeting this Wednesday.
The sanctions are set to include export restrictions on dual-use goods like drones or computers that can be used on the battlefield against Ukraine, as well as aviation parts.
The latest package also includes new listings against 38 individuals and 3 entities, according to four EU diplomats who were granted anonymity to speak
Politicians have a message for tourists who might be freaked out over roasting temperatures and hellish landscapes of roaring forest fires: Swallow your fears and keep enjoying your holiday.
In Greece, 20,000 people were evacuated from Rhodes over the weekend as fires engulfed parts of the island, and British Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell said he “wouldn’t” travel there at the moment. But Greece’s Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni talked down the threat, stressing that only a “small part” of the
Singapore Airlines has been named the world’s best airline at the ‘Oscars of Aviation’.
The carrier reigned supreme over 325 airlines at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2023, swapping places with last year’s number one, Qatar Airways, which now ranks second, breaking its seven-year streak in the top spot.
In third place, meanwhile, it’s Japanese airline ANA All Nippon Airways.
The leading UK airline is British Airways, which ranks 18th worldwide – sliding down the ranking from 11th place last
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