Aviablog

Australian police officers were checking traffic speeds with a radar gun on a nearly-deserted road, somewhere in the outback.
They spotted a vehicle appearing from behind a hill on the horizon and aimed their gun at it, only to see the speed indication shoot up to over 800 km/h (500 mph), after which the machine packed up. For a brief moment they figured the machine was faulty.
A split second later, a very low-flying F/A-18 roared over their heads, making the officers duck to the ground and kicking up dust all around them.

The chief of police sent in a complaint to the local air force base about the "irresponsible behaviour of the jet's pilot."

The base commander replied with a letter, thanking the police for their efforts with helping to investigate the "incident."
The letter went on saying that the F/A-18's computer systems had picked up the radar gun's signals and identified them as a possible threat to the aircraft, jamming the signal from the radar gun - the machine was not faulty, as the police officers had thought. The computer had then started to configure the fully-armed aircraft for an attack, locking one of its air-to-ground missiles onto the radar device. The pilot "fortunately" identified the situation and performed a manual override of the jet's system to prevent the missile from being launched to destroy the "hostile radar device."

I wonder if those cops will ever use a radar gun again

Most passengers can't be bothered to listen to the safety instructions given by cabin crew, or to watch the video. This Southwest Airlines flight attendant though has found a great way to get their attention.

Continuation of Turkish 737 crash at Amsterdam Airport:

04/3: A report released at a news conference about the crash of a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 at Amsterdam Airport on 25 February puts the blame of the accident on the pilots. Nothing suggests that the accident was caused by any external factor or a mechanical problem with the aircraft. The report states that, after approaching the airport too high and too fast, the first officer, who was flying the plane, didn't follow the correct procedures to establish the aircraft on its correct final approach path to the runway. The aircraft ended up flying too slow and stalled before the crew could correct the error or initiate a go-around. Nine people, including the two pilots, died when the Boeing 737 hit the ground.

A blogger writing for the Huffington Post says that the Captain of a United Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to London insulted "Sully", the Captain of the US Airways A320 that ditched into the Hudson River in New York. The United pilot was making a joke - or not - when the flight was following the coastline near New York City, and the metropolis was clearly visible.

What that Captain reportedly said was: "Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are on the left side of the plane, you will see a spectacular view of New York City and US Airways' new runway, the Hudson River."

Now, it is clear that this was intended as a joke. Whether one regards it as a joke or not, that's another question. Of course no one doubts the skill and professionalism of Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger and his crew on that day, who carried out a successful emergency landing on the water and evacuated everyone on board.

Personally I do think that this pilot shouldn't have said it. Not because he was insulting the US Airways crew, but maybe more so because he was talking about another airline. It was a bit derogatory. On the other hand, it could also be viewed as a compliment, for this crew to have been able to land the aircraft on this "improvised runway". In the end it probably is a "glass half full or glass half empty" situation...

Ryanair's rebellious CEO Michael O' Leary has stated on BBC television that his airline might introduce coin slots on the doors of the toilets on its Boeing 737s. Whether he was joking or not, he added to this that passengers would maybe have to pay one pound to use the toilet...

Was this just another publicity stunt to get his name in the papers and on websites? I mean, the very fact that you are reading this now proves that it works!

His following quote is worth mentioning though: "We're all about finding ways of raising discretionary revenue so we can keep lowering the cost of air travel." Right... so, how does charging for having a pee on board relate to lowering the cost of air travel? If anything, Ryanair is making it more expensive with all the extra charges passengers end up paying...

So the airline's new slogan could be "Pay to Pee on Ryanair" or maybe "A Pound for a Penny".