Amazing Near Misses, Part 2

The problem is with boy racers is that they think they’re Michael Schumacher when they really aren’t. I wonder how many near misses it takes before they stop dicking around – or maybe it takes them flipping their car half a dozen times and killing all their poser passengers to realise that maybe, just maybe, [...]

Can you land a plane with braile?

The Isles of Scilly earned their title recently when an advert for a job at the air traffic control centre on the island seemed to be a bit… well, stupid.
The advert featured a line mentioning availability of braile or audio versions of the job ad, obviously for blind or deaf people. Except the job itself [...]

Officials in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi have been mystified as to who own a Boeing 727 jet airliner after it was left at the airport months ago. It arrived from Siem Reap in Cambodia back in November 2007, and since then has been left on the tarmac unclaimed.
The plane has markings of Air Dream, [...]

It came from the skies

A man in Indonesia has dropped over £5,000 worth of bank notes out of a plane over a sports field to promote his new self-help book. He claimed he would rather give the money away to others rather than spend it on a promotional campaign, but was stopped from dropping it over Jakarta by the [...]

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