In a continued sign of transatlantic unity, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) came under NATO command today while preparing to conduct activities in the Norwegian Sea with other maritime forces from Allied Nations. This transfer of authority to Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (SFN) demonstrates the Alliance’s ability to integrate the high-end…
A Detroit-bound flight from France was forced to make an emergency landing on a Canadian island after travelers were left contending with an unruly passenger who had broken free of restraints. Delta flight DL97 took off from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport Friday en route to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan with 261 passengers.…
US authorities scrambled fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive aircraft that violated the airspace over the Washington DC area. The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of an aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said. No survivors…
Airbus is closing a potential record order with up to 500 narrowbody A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier, Indigo. The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said on the sidelines of an airline industry meeting in Istanbul. Airbus and…
British Airways’ first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport yesterday. This was British Airways’ first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline’s exclusivity as the only British carrier operating…