An Air India aircraft hit a parked ground cooling unit (GCU) truck just after landing on the runway at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident took place around 9.41pm on Friday. The GCU is ground support equipment, which supplies cold air or hot air into a parked aircraft to maintain comfortable temperatures. Officials confirmed…
Ryanair is to cancel 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, in a bid to improve punctuality of flights. The budget Irish-based airline announced the plan on Friday, saying that it was “unacceptable” that its punctuality had fallen below 80% in the first half of this month. It also said it…
Very nice looking Air France 777 leaving the Ottawa in the late evening. This flight had been diverted due to storms at nearby airports.
The only other time I’ve seen a plane veer to one side of the runway like this was due a steering failure. Apparently not the case here as the aircraft departed normally a couple of hours later.
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