SF News Another United Flight From SFO Needed To Make An Emergency Landing After System Issues On Friday A United Airlines jet headed to Mexico City experienced a problem with the aircraft's hydraulic system, prompting an emergency landing at LAX on Friday afternoon.
SF News FBI Investigating After Russian Man Flies Into California From Europe With No Ticket or Passport A mysterious man carrying both Russian and Israeli IDs, believed to be a Russian citizen, landed at LAX last month and seemed to be pretty evasive after he was detained by Customs & Border Patrol agents and subsequently questioned by the FBI.
SF News Frenzied, Masturbating Bay Area Man Allegedly Tried To Open Airplane Door Mid-Flight This report originally appeared on LAist.com A Virgin America flight headed from Boston to L.A. Monday had to stop in Omaha because of an allegedly drugged man who was masturbating mid-flight,
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Deemed 'Communist' By Cuban Ex-Pat If you live in San Francisco, you're more or less guaranteed to run in to Sean Penn at least once during your tenure. It's a rite of passage like drinking your first Fernet
SF News American Airlines Jet Makes Emergency Landing at LAX American Flight 442, bound for Miami, made an emergency landing at LAX today after the pilot "reported smoke and the smell of fuel in the cockpit." Egads. All passengers are safe, according to
SF News News From SFO This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was
SF News Virgin America Airlines' Virgin Operations Given Approval; Virgin Flights By Mid-Summer On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation dotted the eyes and crossed the tees for Sir Richard Branson's airline, Virgin America, to begin flying out of SFO, which will actually be its
SF News Speaking Of 'High-Speed Rails' . . . When we complained about Frontier Airlines LAX-SFo flights going away, our helpful commenters had a short discussion on high-speed railways and what a great thing they'd be. How timely, then, that the CoCo
SF News GAHHH! Frontier Airlines Flying Right Outta Town It's "all airlines, all the time" here on SFist. After the lukewarm-to-good news of JetBlue flying out of SFO, we're greeted with some bad news: Frontier Airlines is vacating the premises--no more "commuter
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
