Air Baltic orders 30 additional Bombardier CS300 aircraft, plus 30 options. The Latvian carrier Air Baltic (brand name airBaltic) and Bombardier announced that the two parties have reached an agreement for the purchase of 30 Bombardier CS300 with options for another 30 aircraft of this type. It adds to the existing order of 20 CS300…
A pilot at a Californian flight school and his assistant have been arrested after kidnapping and attempting to deport a Chinese flight student back to China. Jonathon McConkey is a pilot, qualified flight instructor and general manager of IASCO Flight Training School. He is alleged to of carried out the kidnapping with his assistant and…
Panicked passengers of a Lion Air flight were evacuated after a new bomb hoax in Indonesia. This is the 9th bomb hoax on airplanes in Indonesia in May 2018.
Writer and Historian, John Bull, has written a 3 part article on how Pan Am Flight 18602 accidently became the first commercial plane to circimnavigate the world. The article tells the story of Captain Robert Ford and his crew onboard their Clipper as it was flying from Hawaii to New Zealand when they received word…
