ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A flight heading from Virginia to Florida took an unexpected detour Wednesday after the plane possibly hit a bird while both were in flight. American Eagle Flight 4186, which was operated by Envoy, took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), heading to Key West Internatinoal Airport […]
A British man who wreaked havoc on a United Airlines flight, forcing the flight crew to divert their landing location, must pay over $20,000 to the airline, prosecutors announced. The charges stem from a March 1 flight that departed from London, when passenger Alexander Michael Dominic MacDonald, 30, "began arguing with his traveling companion and causing a disturbance," according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. "When flight attendants asked MacDonald to be quiet and attempted to calm him, he became belligerent, threatening and intimidating towards them," prosecutors said.