HOLIDAY, Fla. – Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died Tuesday after his plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a press conference. The Florida Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Coast Guard, Pasco Fired Department and Pasco Sheriff’s Office all responded to the scene after a 911 call […]
Pitbull, real name Armando Christian Perez, sent his private jet to the hurricane-battered island of Puerto Rico so that he could fly cancer patients to the mainland of the United States for their chemo treatments. Puerto Rico congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez recognized the move with a message on Twitter, writing, “Thank you @pitbull for lending your private plane to move cancer […]
LOS ANGELES — A Southwest Airlines passenger who said she had a life-threatening pet allergy was physically removed from a Los Angeles-bound plane prior to taking off in Baltimore Tuesday, and the incident was captured by fellow passengers on video, according to KTLA. Passengers were already aboard Southwest Flight 1525 when the pilot and several Baltimore […]
SANTA ANA, CA (RNN) – A small plane crashed and caught fire on Interstate 405, short of the runway at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA, south of Los Angeles. The airport said the pilot called mayday to the tower just 11 seconds after takeoff. A fire official said he was circling back attempting to […]
CLEVELAND – The city held a news conference at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and announced that today was the last day for recovery operations in Lake Erie for the plane that went missing over Lake Erie on Dec. 29. Commissioner of Burke Lakefront Airport, Khalid Bahhur provided most of the details. Crews returned to the water […]
CLEVELAND– Crews released new information Friday night into the plane crash investigation in Lake Erie. At a press conference shortly after 6 p.m., officials said they recovered a seat from a passenger compartment and found what appear to be human remains. The medical examiner was called in to analyze the remains. Earlier Friday, officials said, dive […]
Forget those flight announcements you’ve heard a thousand times. One Southwest flight attendant has found a way to make passengers really listen up. A video showing Zach Haumesser impersonating “Looney Tunes” characters has gone viral, with more than 1.7 million views since it was posted on YouTube on Sept. 2. His voices include Elmer Fudd, […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The National Transportation Safety Board released its public docket on the Nov. 10, 2015 plane crash in Akron that killed nine people. The documents released are extensive. The report contains more than 1,100 pages, including the cockpit voice recorder transcript, witness statements, pilot training records and toxicology reports, to name a few. […]
Bob Evans will donate a portion of its sales to help families that were displaced by a Nov. 10 plane crash in Akron. According to a Facebook event titled ‘Bob Evans Fundraiser for Helping Families displaced by #AkronPlaneCrash,’ Bob Evans will donate 15 percent of its sales from dine-in, carryout, and catering orders to help […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – The Ohio Highway Patrol says there are no survivors of the plane crash in Akron Tuesday afternoon. Officials from ExecuFlight, the company that leased the aircraft, tell us there were nine people aboard the plane, a pilot, copilot and seven passengers. The FAA says a Hawker H25 twin-engine business jet left Dayton and […]
When Academy Award winning actress and comedienne Mo’Nique revealed director Lee Daniels told her she had been blackballed in the industry after her stellar performance in “Precious,” we were confused. How? When? But Why? We were certain Mo’Nique was about to blow up. However, according to Daniels, who recently appeared on CNN for an interview […]