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Delta passenger gets Istanbul to New York flight diverted to Dublin by charging cell phone in airplane lavatory

Boeing 767 Takeoff Look, I get it. It sucks that not all airplane seats have electrical outlets, and the ones that do typically require plug adapters. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to leave your phone in the lavatory to charge instead.

That’s what one passenger did on a Delta flight from Istanbul to New York (JFK) today. The flight crew became concerned about the “suspicious device” that had been plugged into the shaver

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Video: JetBlue pilot tries to break into cockpit, yells about bomb, gets removed from plane after emergency landing

This morning, JetBlue Flight 191 from New York to Las Vegas was forced to make an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas after an in-flight incident involving the captain.

According to witnesses, the co-pilot noticed the captain was behaving erratically, then locked the captain out of the cockpit after he left to use the restroom. As he tried to re-enter but was unable to, the captain then screamed that there was a bomb on board, and also yelled about Iran and

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Video: Penguins on a plane

Some airline passengers get to sit near screaming babies or people who sound like they have the plague. Other passengers get to sit near penguins. Life just isn’t fair, is it?

On a recent Delta flight from San Antonio to Atlanta, first class passengers were treated to a visit from some well-dressed guests. Two penguins from Sea World were seated in their cabin, and their handler let them loose for a while once the plane was in the

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