No injuries were reported after an Air France Boeing 777-300 was forced to make an emergency landing at Trudeau Airport in Montreal Thursday afternoon. Air France flight AF54 which was carrying 152 passengers and 17 crew members, was en route from Paris, France to Washington D.C. Thursday afternoon when it diverted to Montreal. “We took…
The pilot of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 may have pulled off the perfect emergency water landing before being the plane was overcome by high seas and sank. While the hunt is on for the black boxes, several aviation experts believe the absence of any usual crash transmission data means the plane could have touched down…
A plane flying from New York to Doha made an emergency landing in Manchester to haul off a drunk male passenger on board. The Qatar Airways flight was diverted after the pilot decided he wanted to remove the man who was causing a disruption and had to be restrained by staff. The suspect was arrested…
Divers waiting to inspect the possible wreck of an AirAsia Indonesia jet off Borneo were unable to resume operations because of heavy seas on Thursday and an aviation official said it could take a week to find the black box flight recorders. Crews were on standby to descend to a large object detected by sonar…
Oman Air’s first flight from its home base of Muscat to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta took off earlier. The new service will operate four flights per week and will offer convenient connections at Muscat to exciting destinations throughout Oman Air’s rapidly-expanding network.
A pilot on an Indonesia AirAsia flight tested positive for morphine in a test conducted after the plane touched down in Bali, Indonesia’s Kompas website reported on Thursday. The unnamed pilot, with initials F I, took the test on Thursday morning after flight QZ7510 touched down at Ngurah Rai Bali Airport in Denpasar at 8.50am,…
Gambia Bird Airlines has suspended commercial flight operations until further notice. A statement from the airline said: “We wish to express our sincere regrets for disrupting the travel plans of those of our esteemed guests who are booked on the suspended flights.”