Ryanair has called again on the European Commission to take action to prevent the skies over Europe being closed once more by French air traffic controllers’ union strikes, targeting the European Championships. Ryanair has been forced to cancel 44 flights on Tuesday, to/from and over France, in what will be the 50th French strike since…
A commercial flight made an unscheduled landing after a passenger tried to force his way into the cockpit, telling fellow travellers he wanted to fly the plane . The incident happened just minutes after take-off, with dramatic footage from the aeroplane cabin showing the moment the apparently disturbed young man was subdued by other passengers…
20 years ago today, Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 865 (PK-GIE) was a scheduled international flight from Fukuoka, Japan to Jakarta, Indonesia with a stopover in Bali, Indonesia. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 was carrying 260 passengers & 15 crew members at the time of the accident. Photograph taken of PK-GIE at Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport…