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Imagine you are a penguin, coming home from a long day in the office–only to find your wife-penguin shacked up with another. This is the situation that faced one of our flippered friends recently.  This penguin–let’s call him Franklin–Franklin arrived home to find his home was no longer his and his wife …

A huge fight broke out on a Ryanair flight headed to Malta from Brussels, forcing an emergency landing. According to RT.com, it started after an elderly woman was injured (and eventually resulted in a flight attendant being slapped): “It started when an elderly woman moved seats and told me they’d …

Sometimes when you are in a bad situation, it’s difficult to ask for help.  What if trying to ask for help makes the situation worse? What if you don’t know whether or not you are in a bad situation and don’t want to overreact–but you still want to get out of …

Not the Onion.  A man pulled out his junk about 90 minutes into a flight to have a wee. The flight was going from Cancun to Frankfurt but made an emergency landing after he exposed himself, made death threats, and slapped a few people. From FCN: Nearly 90 minutes into …

Today, a flight from Philly to Boston was delayed, and an aircraft was replaced after a couple was discovered already onboard before the boarding process. They were on the correct flight and in their correct seats.  They just weren’t there at the correct time. From Fox News: Officials said American …

I was reading a story about a goat causing an aborted landing some time in the middle of the night.  When I tried to find it again this morning, I came across an even better story. First, the aborted landing. From Stuff: A pilot was forced to abandon landing at …

Usually, you don’t see the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) as an organization that moves quickly.  However, the CPSC saw the Galaxy Note in-flight fire issue as being so important, they got a subpoena to seize a man’s post-fire Galaxy Note. No souvenir for him. From the Verge: Green told The …

According to million-mile flyer, Mary Campos, United switched her from her pre-booked seat to another one to accommodate a request. It wasn’t a request to move a family together or to move an underaged person out of the exit row.  The two men who were going to share the row …

This is crazy.  And possibly convincing me to never go sky diving.  (aside from the plummeting to earth part). A man jumped out of a plane and got caught on his way down. His friends in the plane had to cut him loose.   But the entire time, he had to …

Five points to the pilot on this one.  Even though this footage is going to look scary, it looks like the pilot did the right thing in this situation. A pilot was landing a 737 in Prague when some crosswind struck.  The airplane hit down hard and the pilot pulled …