Fighter jets were scrambled from several NATO countries as two Russian Air Force planes entered North Sea airspace. At 07:10 UTC, two RAF KC2 Voyager were scrambled from RAF Brize Norton. Two RAF Typhoons were also scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth. Two Belgian Air Force F-16s were scrambled by the Dutch Air Force. Dutch & Belgian…
Boeing and Southwest Airlines today announced the carrier will continue to build its business around the 737 MAX family with a new order for 100 airplanes and 155 options across two models. Southwest had been exploring options to modernize the largest component of its fleet: the 737-700 that serves the airline’s needs for a 140-150…
A Boeing-737 from Moscow that was preparing for an emergency landing in Krasnodar has landed safely, the Krasnodar airport’s press service said on Sunday. “The plane has landed safely at 18:19 Moscow time,” the press service said. According to a spokesman for the Russian emergencies ministry’s Krasnodar territory department, no one was hurt. A probe…
A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, hitched a ride to the red planet with the Perseverance rover, arriving last month. Ingenuity will attempt the first powered,…
Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac at the international airport in Nouakchott and threatened to set it on fire, the government news agency reported Thursday. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident and it was not immediately clear how…
The Ministry of Defence is temporarily grounding all Royal Navy Hawk jets while investigating a crash during a training exercise that left two pilots seriously injured. The crew from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose at Helston, Cornwall, ejected from the jet during the incident on March 25. The two-seater Hawk T1,…
The terminal at the Pensacola International Airport has been shut down Thursday morning as authorities investigate a “potential threat.” “Pensacola Police and Airport staff are currently investigating a potential threat on site,” the airport says in a release. “At this time the airport terminal is closed to passenger traffic. Please stand by for more information…
After Uruguayan Air Force helicopter crash, 300 doses of Pfizer vaccine were lost. The Air Force helicopter that had departed this morning from Carrasco Airport and was transferring Pfizer de Rocha vaccines, suffered a “mechanical failure”, which led to an “emergency landing”, near Km. 184 of Route 9, as indicated to Montevideo Portal, from the…
A Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet has crashed in Cornwall. It is understood that both crew ejected and nobody has died. Military sources confirmed the crashed jet is from 736 Naval Squadron based at Culdrose. Devon & Cornwall Police said: “Emergency services are currently in the St Martins area of Helston following reports of a…
Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter was significantly damaged when a round fired from its underbelly 25mm gun pod exploded. An ammunition round that exploded following its discharge from a Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, earlier this month caused damage to the stealth fighter’s fuselage, according to…
A video posted to social media shows the end of a fight among airline passengers, the kerfuffle reportedly happening as they got off the plane in Phoenix, the Arizona Republic. It happened on American Airlines Flight 2275 from Los Angeles on Sunday. The plane arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 6:28 p.m. Passenger…
Guatemalan authorities have closed Guatemala’s international airport as volcanic ash blanketed planes and runways on Tuesday. Guatemala City’s La Aurora International Airport was temporarily closed after unfavorable wind conditions carried ash from the nearby and active Pacaya volcano its way, according to Guatemala’s Civil Aviation Authority. The Civil Aviation Authority announced the closure on Twitter,…