A Belgian-British teenage pilot hopes to join his sister in the record books after starting his attempt to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small plane on Wednesday. With his parents looking on, 16-year-old Mack Rutherford took off from an airstrip west of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in windy but…
New pictures from Russian forces at Gostomel Airport show the world’s biggest airplane destroyed beyond repair. The new pictures show the nosecone full of bullet holes as Gostomel airport has been the place of 3 battles. A video released from Russian MOD shows the Antonov An-225 intact in her hangar during the first assault by…
The airplane carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in eastern Poland has made an emergency landing after returning to Warsaw. A Boeing 737-800 BBJ2 carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda was turned back on route to Rzeszow and made an emergency landing in Warsaw. Duda later boarded a different aircraft and…
Following the destruction of the world’s biggest aircraft, the Antonov company appeals for funds for the revival of the An-225. Yesterday, Antonov company posted on Facebook to remind the people that the An-225 plane is the largest by mass cargo transportation and unbeatable by its parameters. During 34 years of operation on all continents, the…
Search area to be expanded in hilly and forested crash site, where constant rain and landslide fears are making recovery efforts more difficult More than 10km (6.2 miles) from where China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed, a farmer has found what he suspects to be a piece of aircraft debris, indicating the vast expanse of…
Russian forces are watching military activities at the Western Ukrainian Airport. As the runway 10 threshold is only 133 meters from Slovak border, the Uzhhorod airport is a very sensitive area. Slovakia’s Defence Minister has confirmed he’s received intelligence warning of possible attack on Ukraine’s Uzhhorod airport “in the near future”. The airfield literally touches…
Authorities have yet to declare the number of victims, but there has been no sign so far that any of the 132 people onboard had survived. Investigators still do not know why the plane suddenly entered a near-vertical dive in southern China on Monday. But the recovery of the intact cockpit voice recorder is hoped…
Very recent plane moves occurred at Kyiv Boryspil International Airport. Satellite pictures show some serious airplane rearrangement occurred at Kyiv International Airport. Between March 21 and March 23.03, planes were removed from the gates but also from the main parking. Several planes were regrouped South of the airport, on a parking between the runways.
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile which flew for “71 minutes” for a distance of 1100 KM’s North Korea fired what is thought to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the sea off its east coast on Thursday, militaries in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first full-capability launch…
The China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed Monday was diving at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside, according to a Bloomberg News review. Such an impact may complicate the task for investigators because it can obliterate evidence and, in rare cases, damage a plane’s data and…
Flybe flights are set to relaunch next month with bases in Birmingham and Belfast City two years after the airline collapsed. The airline was pushed into administration in March 2020 as Covid wreaked havoc on parts of the travel market, but was saved last year when its business and assets were bought by Thyme Opco,…
The pilots of the China Eastern plane that crashed failed to respond to calls from air traffic controllers, according to the Chinese aviation regulator. Air traffic controllers launched multiple attempts to reach the pilots of flight MU5735 after it turned into a nosedive position, but received no response, head of aviation safety at the Civil…