No ILS at Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, South Africa because calibration has expired
Pilots landing at certain South African airports may be forced to do so without an essential ground-based system used to guide planes safely towards the ground in low visibility. This…
London Heathrow Airport still suffers 89% traffic drop
Heathrow’s passenger numbers were down 89% year-on-year in July, figures published by the airport show. Just 867,000 people travelling through the west London airport last month, compared with 7.754 million…
INCIDENT A Royal Thai Navy Fokker F-27 landed without nose gear
Royal Thai Navy Fokker F-27 (1202, built 1984) received major damage during a nosegear-up landing at Narathiwat (VTSC), Thailand. Pilots previously alerted rescuers and firefighters to prepare before landing on…
When an #avgeek bear is climbing onto a plane in Alaska
In Chinitna bay, a curious juvenile bear liked the plane. The pilots said she was always curious about airplanes and it was probably the third or fourth encounter with her.…
He celebrates his 95th birthday with a parachute jump
Maurice Ferrier will never forget the day of his 95th birthday. This former butcher, who had never boarded a plane, dreamed of going "to see what's going on up there".…
Rolls-Royce A350 engines to be subject to an Airworthiness Directive after cracks found in compressor blades
Rolls-Royce will carry out extra inspections on some of its Trent XWB engines which power the Airbus A350 airliner. Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday that the issue would not cause significant…
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines have taken no-pay leave
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group have taken no-pay leave of varying lengths to help the company cope with the collapse in air…
After surviving COVID-19, Sudheer Variyath died in Air India Express crash
One of the victims of Friday’s Dubai-Kozhikode flight crash, who was declared positive for COVID-19 after his death, had survived the deadly coronavirus in May and tested negative again before…
INCIDENT A Jet2 Boeing 757 suffered an engine issue on takeoff from Manchester
A Jet2 Boeing 757 suffered an engine issue due to bird strike on takeoff from Manchester. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-LSAN) was performing a test flight from Manchester with no…
INCIDENT A United Airlines Boeing 787 has been evacuated over bomb threat in NYC
A United Airlines flight was searched on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport after a passenger made a bomb threat on board. An unidentified passenger on United Flight 2304 arriving…
Tourists panicked on the beach when Hi Fly A380 performed a low pass on functional check flight
A Hi Fly A380 flew over the beaches of the Algarve in Portugal, frightening tourists who were on the beach. In the footage took by a tourist at the Falésia…
No luck! A SAS flight from France to Norway landed few minutes after the mandatory quarantine was imposed
A plane travelling from Nice in France to Oslo in Norway landed just minutes after the mandatory quarantine was imposed, meaning all 158 passengers needed to self-isolate for 10 days.…
