News and notes from around the interweb:
- Watch: Plane’s Engine Bursts Into Flames in Midair, Terrified Passenger Sent ‘Goodbye Texts’
A commercial Boeing 757 flight was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Italy over the weekend after one of its engines burst into flames in midair in a pulse-pounding moment captured on video.
The flight from Corfu to Düsseldorf on Saturday evening was carrying 273 passengers and eight crew members when flames suddenly erupted from the engine.
@corekvas This just happened ✈️ #corfu #greecetiktok ♬ original sound – Vasiliki - American’s 2,000 square foot ‘grab n go’ Admirals Club space in Charlotte is now open
- Guam likely to get $11 million subsidy just to keep existing air service (not for new air service). If the U.S. is going to have remote territories like this, we’re sort of stuck paying for that. It’s far more plausible than the Essential Air Service program in the lower 48 which is mostly garbage (flights for nobody out of airports easily driveable to a medium-sized hub, and that often don’t even connect to a hub).
- Sue!
- United once flew to Buffalo airport when it was closed, too.
@united UA 225 : EWR to BUF lands on time at 11:35PM and Captain is unable to establish any contact with ground staff to get us of the plane. It’s 12:20AM right now and there is no movement! We have been sitting on the tarmac. What pathetic service is this? pic.twitter.com/QejBTdwIsY
— Rehan Shaukat (@TweetRehan) August 18, 2025
- Governor Chris Sununu to helm airline lobby shop A4A
That engine fire didn’t look (or sound) good. Glad everyone on DE3665 ended up alright. Of course, that would not be ‘fun’ for anyone, crew or passengers, but the crew seems to have handled it the best they could. It can happen on any flight, though, the 757s are getting super old; wonder what the cause was.
That grab-n-go place in CLT is gonna be pillaged like the last food market in a zombie apocalypse.
@Mike — That’s a funny thought, though, I’d assume there a practical limit to what individuals with access can carry, and there probably should be some ‘fine print’ to prevent abuse. The only terms I see so far are “Access to the Provisions by Admirals Club℠ lounge follows the same policies as traditional Admirals Club® locations.” I guess lessons will have to be learned (like, is ‘take 1’ drink, entree, etc., per person, reasonable enough?), and Gary will probably be posting about the ‘bad actors’ on here soon enough. *facepalm*
1) It looks like compressor stall to me . Obviously not what you want to see from seat 16F, but you’re probably not going to die as this happens often enough that flight crews are well trained in how to deal with it.
2) Grab and Go lounge? So, AA is already going after Spirit’s customer base even before the patient is dead. Meanwhile, Spirit (and Frontier) folks are saying: “hey, that was OUR idea!”