Southwest Jet Dives To Evade Midair Collision
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TravelPulse on MSNSouthwest Airlines Plane and Fighter Jet Have Near Miss in Los AngelesThe Southwest Boeing 737 departed just before noon local time on Friday for a scheduled flight to Las Vegas. Six minutes after takeoff, a privately owned Hawker Hunter fighter jet crossed less than two miles in front of the Southwest plane, passing within a few hundred feet of the same altitude, according to flight tracking site Flightradar24.
An aviation photographer unknowingly captured the moment a Spanish fighter jet collided with a seagull during in airshow. The incident occurred on June 15 at the San Javier Air Base in Murcia, Spain.
On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet crashed on takeoff from Paris, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.
Private jet-makers have long gambled that Asia will deliver an outsize chunk of future growth. By one estimate, the value of private-jet sales in the continent will swell 7% a year to 2030. That compares with 4% annual growth worldwide and a mere 1% in America (already home to two-thirds of the world’s private-jet fleet).
Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia on Thursday after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries.
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A Thai F-16 fighter jet bombed targets in Cambodia, both sides said, as weeks of tension over a border dispute escalated.
Germany and France sought to defuse tensions over a planned joint fighter jet program, asking their defense ministers to present a solution in August as one of the region’s most ambitious weapons systems remains mired in conflict.
"Jet lag is no big deal," I thought to myself, booking a flight to Austria for my first-ever trip to Europe earlier this summer. I'll just chug some coffee and power through. Nearly a week after I've returned, my internal clock is still in shambles.