A plane crashed in the Midlands region of South Carolina Sunday, according to the Saluda County Sheriff’s Office. Both occupants of the two-passenger plane were airlifted by helicopter to a hospital, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Further information on their conditions was not available. A spokesperson for the Saluda County coroner told […]
USS Constitution is the only remaining US Navy ship to have sunk an enemy warship in battle. It is also the oldest commissioned warship in the world that’s still afloat, and it’s full of history. Business Insider embarked on the 226-year-old frigate for a recent underway in the Boston Harbor. With sea shanties blaring on the loudspeaker […]
HELSINKI (AP) — The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later. The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just […]
June 11 (UPI) — A plane in China was delayed after a passenger’s smuggled pet sugar glider, a type of small Australian possum, escaped in the passenger cabin. Shanghai Police International Airport Branch said passengers on the Eastern Airlines flight to Jinan had to temporarily disembark when the animal, which resembles a flying squirrel, escaped […]
NEWPORT – During his first semester at Maine Maritime Academy, last fall, Andrew Weaver II more than once thought to himself that the course instruction he was receiving sounded familiar. And even some of his Maine Maritime professors weren’t total strangers. A 2023 graduate of North Kingstown High School and a marine transportation and operations […]
More than 250 passengers on a P&O cruise ship have fallen ill with suspected norovirus. A source said guests had been “throwing up in public spaces” around the ship. A P&O spokesperson said there had been numerous reports of guests with “gastrointestinal symptoms.” Hundreds of holidaymakers on board a P&O cruise ship have been taken […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a […]
A 26-year-old Lubbock man has agreed to plead guilty to acting lewdly on a flight from Dallas to Lubbock last month. Julion Deshaud Immanuel Morris is expected to plead guilty in federal court to a count of committing lewd, indecent or obscene acts on an aircraft and to a count of possession of cocaine. The […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Thursday on a conviction of criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel nearly five years ago. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted […]
A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, will go up for sale at an auction of memorabilia from the doomed ship. Astor was one of around 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after […]
Stunning rocket cam footage captures the final Delta IV Heavy launch, closing out the program after 64 years of delivering large payloads into space. The United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:53 p.m. EDT (1653 GMT) on […]
TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Once again, the oceans beckon for France’s veteran nuclear-powered attack submarines. The Associated Press got rare access aboard a French navy Rubis-class submarine as it was being readied for another mission in sprawling naval dockyards in the Mediterranean port of Toulon. France’s fleets of nuclear-powered submarines are shrouded in secrecy. The […]