Just a week after Storm Malik and Storm Corrie battered the UK, Manchester experienced another weekend of exceptionally strong winds, heavy rain and plenty of disruption. Winds were between 290 and 310 degrees giving a near 90 degree crosswind component for Runway 23R at Manchester, and with reported winds gusting as high as 39 Knots.…
Frontier Group Holdings agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $2.9 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create a discount airline juggernaut. Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, the two largest low-cost carriers in the U.S. have agreed to merge, creating what would become the fifth-largest airline in the country. The boards of…
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving in Atlanta Sunday suffered a flight tire upon landing, officials confirmed. Delta Flight 1277, an Airbus A321 (reg. N129DN), was flying from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. According to officials, the plane blew out a tire on its right main gear during a landing around 3:40 p.m on runway 09R.…
A plane carrying US troops landed in Poland on Sunday (Feb 6), a Reuters witness said, as Washington reinforces its NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine’s border. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania, as Washington moves to reassure jittery NATO…
A new video emerged online on Sunday purporting to show the American F-35C fighter jet crash-landing and skidding off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the open sea somewhere south of China. The incident occurred on January 24, when a US Navy F-35C crashed while landing on the USS Carl Vinson…