"For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air."

A collection of blackbox recordings.

"An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight. The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and in

"An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches."

Basic flight sim that uses Google maps, very nifty, although you can only select a select number of cities to fly over.