A Casa C-101 Aviojet belonging to the Spanish Air Force’s display team Patrulla Águila, has crashed into sea today near La Manga, in Murcia. The pilot, Commander Eduardo Fermín Garvalena, was killed in the accident. The Spanish Air Force released a statement saying that a C-101 jet of the Academia General del Aire, the academy…
A runway was closed after the nose gear of an A321 broke during landing at Istanbul Airport. The Turkish airlines A321 was performing flight #TK1598 from Frankfurt to Istanbul when the nose gear was broken during the landing. First reports state the aircraft (reg. TC-JSH) performed a hard landing. The runway 16R was closed and…
Heathrow Airport’s plans for a third runway face being blocked after a landmark Court of Appeal defeat over climate change. A group of councils in London affected by the expansion, environmental charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, brought legal action over the Government’s approval of the…
The final Airbus A380 convoy arrived to the Airbus A380 Final Assembly Line in the Jean-Luc Lagardere plant at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. Three huge sections of the aircraft are carried in three specially designed vessels, that carry six heavy components by sea, while the vertical tail fin flies from Hamburg to Toulouse. The wings were built…