easyJet has seen UK bookings surge within hours of the UK government confirmation that fully-vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to take a PDT (pre-departure test) to return to the UK from non-red list countries. The change comes into effect on October 4th, ahead of the half-term holiday. Flight bookings for the late summer…
Two pilots are injured and three homes are damaged after a US Navy T-45 jet crashed in a Lake Worth neighborhood Sunday morning, officials say. Lake Worth officials received a call at 10:53 a.m. about the downed plane in the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota trails. Both pilots had ejected and one was found…
A plane from Los Angeles tipped onto its tail after arrival at Lewiston Airport. The Boeing 737-900 (reg. N78448) was carrying USC Trojans college Football team for their game with Wazzu. The aircraft tipped over at Lewiston Airport during the unloading process. According to sources, half the team was still on board when the incident…
The US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people. A US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike. The youngest child, Sumaya, was just two years old. The deadly…
Air France flight #AF393 made an emergency landing after the cabin was filled with smoke and dust. The Boeing 777-300ER (reg. F-GSQD) on September 18, 2021 from Beijing airport to Paris-Charles de Gaulle operated in Boeing 777 returned to Beijing after 14 minutes of flight due to a technical incident. Passengers reported a loud bang…
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…