Pilot error and failure to follow safety guidelines probably led to the crash of an Air India Express plane in August last year, investigators say. The passenger plane with 190 people on board crashed at the Calicut airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing 21 people. The Boeing 737, which had flown from Dubai,…
Some days are just turtally awesome! Today, in partnership with Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry, Co Down, Aer Lingus is repatriating a young endangered turtle on flight EI 782 from Dublin to Gran Canaria. Back in January 2019, a nine month old loggerhead sea turtle (named Julius Caesar or ‘JC’ to his friends) was found washed…
A B-2 stealth bomber was damaged after making an emergency landing early Tuesday at Whiteman Air Force Base. The B-2 Spirit was damaged on a runway in the incident at approximately 12:30 a.m., Jennifer Greene, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Global Strike Command, told Kansas City television station KMBC. The bomber landed after an…
A man has been sentenced for flying a plane without a license, making emergency landing in Waterloo. A New Mexico man has been sentenced in Iowa to two years’ probation and fined $5,000 for flying a single-engine plane in 2018 without a license, which was discovered when he was forced to make an emergency landing.…
Last stored Lufthansa A380 in Germany has left Frankfurt to Spain, possibly its very last flight.
The U.S. Navy and Boeing have used the MQ-25TM T1 test asset to refuel a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jet for the first time, once again demonstrating the aircraft’s ability to achieve its primary aerial refueling mission. This was the third refueling mission for the Boeing-owned test asset in just over three months,…
A plane was flying from Irkutsk to Kazachinskoye and crashed just 4 kilometres from the runway, the emergency services said. Four people have died and five more were injured following the crash-landing of an L-410 aircraft with 14 passengers and 2 crew members in Russia’s Irkutsk Region earlier on Sunday, the local authorities said. The…
A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying handful of passengers has touched down at Kabul airport. The first international commercial flight has landed since the Taliban retook power. The PIA Boeing 777 has landed in Kabul in the morning. A AFP journalist on flight says only “around 10 people” aboard
It was maybe not a good idea to plan a drill with the French Air Force over south of Paris on 9/11. This Saturday in the middle of the afternoon, a plane which looked like an airliner was observed at very low altitude escorted by a fighter plane. It actually was a French Air Force…
Cape Air confirmed that a flight from Boston carrying six passengers and one pilot crashed while attempting to land at Provincetown Municipal Airport. Provincetown Town Manager Alex Morse said that there were no fatalities. There was no immediate word on the extent of the injuries to those involved in the crash. The plane came down…
Passengers on a flight out of Fort Lauderdale this week had to be evacuated after a woman allegedly made a false bomb threat when she arrived too late to catch the plane. Marina Verbitsky, 46, arrived with her husband and child at the gate late for the family’s flight out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport…
211 people including American, British, Dutch, Ukrainian and German passport holders will be allowed on board. aliban authorities have agreed to let 200 American civilians and third country nationals who remained in Afghanistan after the end of the U.S. evacuation operation to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport, a U.S. official said. The Taliban…