A Jetstar Boeing 787 will be out of service for up to two months after a lightning strike inflicted significant damage on the jet during a flight from Melbourne to the Gold Coast earlier this month. Jetstar Airways Boeing 787-800 (VH-VKL, built 2015) received extensive skin damage resulting from lightning strike(s) while flying on #JQ444…
The Wall Street Journal reveals Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed China Eastern flight #MU5735. The Boeing 737-800 was cruising at high altitude when it suddenly pitched into a near-vertical descent, plummeting into a mountain at extreme speed. Data from a black box recovered in the crash suggests inputs to the controls…
Delta pilot locked himself out of the cockpit and was forced to climb through the window of the plane. Apparently, a Delta pilot was locked out of the cockpit of a Boeing 737. There is a numerical key pad in which pilots can input a code to enter the flight deck. But the pilots maybe…
Shanghai Pudong International Airport capacity plummeted after lockdowns. April was a difficult month for supply chains connected to China, and more turmoil looms as Shanghai authorities have tightened the city-wide lockdown with measures set to last into late May. A French journalist published a video showing a man spraying disinfection liquid on the tamarc at…
An Antonov An-12 entered Ukrainian airspace today. A first since a while: today an Antonov An-12 entered Ukrainian airspace. The Antonov An-12BK (reg. UR-11316) looks to have landed in Uzhhorod Airport. The runway is right at the border with Slovakia, a NATO country. The aircraft took off from Tekirdag, Turkey and could be carrying miliatry…
The FAA revoked the licenses of two pilots for their “careless” and “reckless” conduct during a failed midair stunt last month in Arizona. No one was injured April 24 when daredevil pilots Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington tried to jump out of separate planes into the other to land them. “The attempted stunt resulted in…
A passenger with no flying experience successfully landed a small plane in Florida Tuesday afternoon after his pilot suffered a medical emergency. The incredible aviation accomplishment happened at Palm Beach International Airport with the help of air traffic controllers, according to WPBF-TV. “I’ve got a serious situation here,” the Cessna Caravan passenger was reportedly heard…
Russia is taping basic GPS devices to its fighter jets’ dashboards, the UK’s defense minister said. Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers “taped to the dashboards” in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said. Speaking at the National Army Museum in…
The captain of a Turkish AnadoluJet flight aborted its take-off at Israel’s main airport after passengers received plane crash images on their phones. Israel’s aviation authority said the aircraft was taxiing at Ben Gurion Airport when the incident happened. The AnadoluJet Boeing 737, with 160 passengers on board, was on its way to the take-off…
A Tibet Airlines A319 aborted takeoff then veered off the runway. All 113 passengers & 9 crew of #TV9833 have been evacuated. Tibet Airlines TV9833/A319/B-6425 from Chongqing to Nyingchi was on fire during take-off this morning, details still not known. CKG/ZUCK closed for now. pic.twitter.com/CPL47fmfVk — FATIII Aviation (@FATIIIAviation) May 12, 2022
Vueling, an airline owned by IAG, will open a new sales channel in the metaverse. The new channel will be up and running before the end of the year, and everything purchased in the metaverse will be usable in the real world and will be the same as a physical airline ticket. This is an…
A British passenger has died of a suspected heart attack on a TAP Air Portugal flight from London to Lisbon. The TAP Air Portugal flight from London to Lisbon made an emergency landing in Spain after the patient was found to be unconscious. The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Santiago de…