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UH-60L and CH-53 helicopters flying at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. (Photo Credit: Courtesy) VIEW ORIGINAL JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Aviators from the Alaska Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence are training at the Marine Corps Weapons Training Instructor Course at Marine . . .
A second-grade classroom at Klatt Elementary School in Anchorage in 2021. (Emily Mesner/ADN archive) JUNEAU — The U.S. Department of Education this week designated Alaska as “a high-risk grantee” because it said the state failed to fairly distribute COVID-19 relief to school districts. The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act . . .
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Aviators from the Alaska Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence are training at the Marine Corps Weapons Training Instructor Course at Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona. The Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 is hosting the training March 4 through […]
The ADIZ is a zone that stretches out 150 miles from the U.S. coastline. February 7, 2024, 3:06 AM ET • 2 min read The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has detected and tracked four Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday, according to a statement. “The […]
Last week, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, the United States, when a cabin panel blew off in midair leaving a gaping hole in the aircraft’s fuselage. Just days before, a Japan Airways Airbus collided with a smaller coastguard plane, resulting in the Airbus […]
It was only when I attempted to make small talk with my visibly squirming seatmate on a Raleigh-Durham to New York flight that I realized it was me causing that look of horror on his face, rather than the slight turbulence we had been experiencing since takeoff. A friendly chat, I had thought, might help […]
Updated Jan. 7, 2024 1:16 pm ET PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal investigator said the government’s probe of a blowout in an Alaska Airlines plane Friday is for now focused on the flight-specific accident rather than the model of the jet in question, which was manufactured by Boeing. Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, […]
6 January 2024, 18:01 GMT Updated 18 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: ‘Trip from hell’: On board flight during mid-air blow out The US airline regulator has ordered the grounding of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after an outer section of one […]
By Thomas Mackintosh & Kathryn Armstrong BBC News 6 January 2024, 07:17 GMT Updated 23 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: Inside Alaska Airlines plane as part blows off mid-air A passenger plane lost a section of its fuselage in mid-air, forcing it . […]
This UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter belonging to Charlie Company, 1-52 General Support Aviation Battalion, is parked in the hangar at Fort Wainwright after flying to Tok, Alaska, and back for an aeromedical evacuation. The Arctic Dustoff crew evacuated a patient from the village to the hospital in Fairbanks on New Year’s Eve. (Photo by Eve […]