A passenger on a plane from Europe to the US was called “incredibly rude” after refusing to switch seats for a woman who wanted to get away from a crying baby. An unidentified man wrote about the kerfuffle on Reddit last week in a post that has now gone viral. According to the forum site, […]
A laptop that got “stuck in an inaccessible location” in the cabin of an United Airlines aircraft caused a transatlantic flight to be diverted this weekend, arriving at its final destination more than a day later, according to the airline. United Airlines flight 12 departed from Zurich on Sunday morning and was heading toward Chicago […]
He put himself under outhouse arrest. A Brazilian university professor who’s allergic to “nearly everything” spent an entire trans-Atlantic sequestered in the lavatory after experiencing a serious reaction to the inflight fish meal. “I started to feel bad, to sweat, itch, turn red,” Lucas Gonçalves Dias, 32, told Globo 1 of his solitary can-finement, which […]
Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901. The message was merely the letter “s” in Morse code (dot-dot-dot). But it proved after years of advances by Marconi that radio could make the world […]