Boeing did not tell its largest 737MAX customer Southwest Airlines, that a standard safety feature designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated. The safety feature is an alert that lights up in the cockpit if a plane’s angle-of-attack sensors transmit faulty data about the pitch of the plane’s nose. This feature is…
Saturday, April 14, a stowaway survived hidden inside the landing gear of the plane from Guadeloupe to Guyana. The circumstances are still not clear but a man was able to reach an Air France aircraft at Pointe à Pitre International Airport. The stowaway entered the landing gear compartment before the aircraft took off to Félix…
A Boeing 737-800 operated by El Al was forced to make an emergency landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport Monday morning, after the plane suffered a mechanical failure. The plane, which had been carrying 138 people, most of them teens on a youth trip to Poland ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, was en route…
According to report, from this summer Heathrow will introduce facial recognition technology that will mean passengers flying from the airport won’t need to show passports or boarding passes. The £50m project, which would see the technology used at check-in, bag drop, security and boarding gates, will reduce the average passenger’s journey through the airport by…
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767-200 left engine was emitting flames shortly after departure from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport due to a birdstrike. Pilots of flight UM303 requested an emergency landing at OR Tambo International Airport shortly after take-off but continued to destination. The plane flew at a cruising altitude of 39,000 feet and did not appear…