British Airways is set to welcome back its first A380 aircraft next month and operate its biggest schedule since March 2020. British Airways’ A380 will initially operate to a number of short-haul destinations to allow for crew service familiarisation in November, shortly followed by operating to Miami and Los Angeles in the US, as well…
The US Air Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter moved a step closer to being able to carry nuclear weapons and conduct nuclear strike operations with a recent milestone test, the service reported this week. Two fifth-generation F-35A stealth fighter jets released B61-12 Joint Test Assemblies, non-nuclear mock-ups of a nuclear bomb, at the…
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will experiment 20 pigs, which will move freely on the fields (about size almost 2 km) between two runways during six-week. A pilot project has been launched to find out whether pigs might be able to help ward off birds at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The 20 pigs will be foraging on a…
Passengers arriving at Heathrow were forced to wait in long queues on Wednesday or were held on planes due to a problem with self-service passport gates. The airport has been plagued with incidents of slow-moving queues and delays at Border Control this year. Heathrow has attributed the problems to the Border Force, which is run…
Australian airline Qantas has set a company record by flying a one-off direct flight from Buenos Aires to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. The flight repatriated 107 Australians and set two Qantas records in the process: longest distance covered (15,020 km or 9,333 miles) and longest time in the air for a…
US Air Force F15 fighter jets were spotted in the sky over north London and Essex this morning and worried locals have taken to twitter to share their experiences of the ‘loud bang’. The loud roaring noise had been heard by hundreds in Essex, locals have reported. The sudden explosive sound was heard just before…
In an operation lasting a few hours, two Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) Airbus A380s were towed on their final trip to Changi Exhibition Centre, where they will be taken apart. This is the first time that SIA is scrapping its superjumbos locally. The planes, registration numbers 9V-SKH and 9V-SKG, are among seven A380s that SIA had…
No one seriously hurt when plane crashes on Highway 124 in Winnie at Rice Festival Parade site. No one was hurt when a biplane crashed on Highway 124 at the site of the Rice Festival Parade in Winnie. Sheriff Brian Hawthorne tells KFDM/Fox 4 the plane had been towed to the parade and the pilot…
Firefighters and Milan police at work in via Marignano, near the San Donato metro station, for a plane carrying six people crashed at 1pm. The people on board, six passengers and two crew, all died. From the first information the passengers were French: it was a private flight from Linate to Olbia. There was also…
Passengers of a Spirit Airlines A320 were forced to evacuate via emergency slide at Atlantic City Airport. The Airbus A320 (reg. N922NK) was performing flight #NK3044 from Atlantic City Airport to Ft Lauderdale. The plane suffered a birdstrike and a fire in engine #2 during its take-off on runway 31. The passengers were evacuated on…
Many of the world’s airlines and governments require proof of a negative COVID-19 test before a person can board a flight, but very few have said they will require vaccination. Air New Zealand has announced that it will require passengers to be vaccinated on international flights from February. The airline’s chief executive Greg Foran said…
Two people are dead after a helicopter reportedly collided mid-air with a small plane before crashing Friday near a Chandler airport. According to the Chandler Fire Department, a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane was reported on Oct. 1 near the Chandler Municipal Airport. The plane landed safely, but the helicopter crashed…