In partnership with the U.S. Army’s Integrated Fires and Rapid Capabilities Office, Raytheon Missiles & Defense successfully showcased several counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities during the service’s 10-day summer test period. The tests used Coyote interceptor variants with the KuRFS precision targeting radar and the Ku-720 mobile sensing radar, to detect and defeat all drone swarms…
St. Elmo’s Fire over Georgia, USA. A pilot captured St. Elmo’s Fire while piloting a Boeing 767 somewhere over Georgia in USA. St. Elmo’s fire is a form of plasma. The electric field around the affected object causes ionization of the air molecules, producing a faint glow easily visible in low-light conditions.
An American Airlines passenger stormed the cockpit during boarding, damaged the flight controls, and then tried to jump out the window as the pilot attempted to stop him. A passenger broke into the cockpit of an American Airlines jet at an airport in Honduras and damaged the plane as it was boarding for a flight…
United Airlines is trimming its schedule to address a surge in sick calls among employees, CEO Scott Kirby told employees. U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights over the year-end holidays through early this year due to Covid infections among crews and a series of winter storms. United first cut some flights before Christmas. JetBlue Airways…
The biggest aircraft in the world suffered a technical incident on landing yesterday. On January 10,2022,while the Antonov An-225 aircraft landed at Rzeszow airport in Poland from Istanbyl in Turkey. On landing, the main landing gear strut the bolts fixing the landing gear position sensor “flight-ground” which were cut. The detected malfunction did not affect…
A train hits an aircraft that crashed on railway tracks in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Police in Los Angeles, California, pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train on Sunday, sending debris flying in all directions. Dramatic video shows several officers freeing the man from the downed…
Brussels Airlines has operated 3,000 flights without passengers this winter to avoid losing take-off and landing slots. The airline’s parent company, Lufthansa Group, confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty, including 3,000 Brussels Airlines services, according to a report in The Bulletin. EU rules require that airlines operate a certain percentage of scheduled flights to keep…
A plane passenger was left mortified after reading text messages sent by the woman in front of her on the flight. The traveller noticed the female had been writing to someone to tell them she’s flying early as she’s got coronavirus. Posting on Reddit, the user shared a snap of the passenger’s texts on the…
A pair of dangerously close space encounters is adding to tensions between the U.S. and China, while underscoring the potential peril to astronauts as satellite constellations and debris proliferate in orbit. Two SpaceX satellites had near misses with China’s space station earlier this year — one of them within 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) — in…
A Condor plane that took off at noon this Friday from Lanzarote airport has suffered a suffered a compressor stall, which has forced it to make an emergency landing in Fuerteventura. The Boeing 757-300 (reg. D-ABOB) was heading to Hamburg, Germany, but has been diverted to the neighbouring island after the flames were detected after…
Qatar Airways is claiming more than $600m in compensation from planemaker Airbus for surface flaws on A350 jetliners, according to a court document shedding new light on a growing business feud worth $4m a day. The Gulf carrier is also asking British judges to order France-based Airbus not to attempt to deliver any more of…
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home. The group flew to Cancun from Montreal on December 30 aboard a Sunwing Airlines charter flight…