For nearly 20 years, a haunting relic of one of the worst aviation disasters in U.S. history has been tucked away in a cavernous warehouse in Northern Virginia. The fuselage of the Boeing 747, painstakingly reassembled from nearly 1,600 pieces plucked from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, is a macabre jigsaw puzzle of wires…
A serious incident occured at Paris CDG Airport between a United Boeing 787-10 and a Easyjet A320 due to ATC error. On the day of the occurrence, landings were carried out on runway 09L and take-offs on runway 09R (configuration facing east of the north doublet). The controller did not have direct visual contact with…
Viral video captured an American Airlines passenger being booted off a Texas-to-Florida flight after she allegedly refused to properly mask up. The action unfolded Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as passengers boarded Flight 2823 to Miami, which was running four hours late due to a maintenance issue. An agent spotted the female passenger wearing…
A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Malaga was forced to make an emergency landing in France when a passenger died on board the plane. The 84-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack despite the efforts of his fellow passengers and members of the crew to resuscitate him. It was approximately one hour into flight…
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s…
Airbus has delivered the first A350 from its widebody completion & delivery centre in Tianjin (C&DC), China, taking additional steps in the expansion of its global footprint and long-term strategic partnership with China. The A350-900 aircraft was delivered to China Eastern Airlines, the largest Airbus operator in Asia and second largest in the world. At…
A passenger flight from Nairobi crashes at El-Wak Airport in Gedo region of Somalia. A Skyward Express Dash 8-100 crash-landed at CEEL WAAQ Airport, today July 21. The plane (reg. 5Y-GRS) was carrying 45 people from Nairobi. According to the eye witnesses, the plane went out of the runway. Ceel-waaq District officials told Media that…
Blue Origin will launch its first crewed mission on its New Shepard rocket July 20 to fly its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers to suborbital space and back. Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas. Blue Origin will carry launch Bezos,…
The small Hawaii-based cargo operator that lost one of its planes July 2 when the pilots were forced to ditch it into the ocean after it lost power had been under investigation since last fall for alleged maintenance violations. Rhoades Aviation Inc. was grounded on Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency said Friday…
An-28 plane with 17 people on board has disappeared from radar over Russia’s Tomsk region. A passenger Antonov An-28 plane has disappeared from radar in Russia’s Tomsk region, an emergency source told TASS. UPDATE Officials said the plane made a forced landing after one of its engines failed. UPDATE Missing plane in Siberia found, survivors…
Biden administration to begin evacuating Afghans who aided US military in late July. The Biden administration will begin evacuation flights in late July for Afghans who have aided the U.S. military, according to a senior administration official. President Joe Biden earlier this month said all U.S. combat forces will be out of Afghanistan by Aug.…
The nose cone of a Boeing 777-300ER has been damaged. The flight #EK205 was forced to return to Milan, Italy after the plane suffered damages. The Boeing 777-300ER (reg. A6-ECF) was forced to abort the climb at 20,225 ft when the aircraft entered a hail storm. The nose cone and cockpit windshield have been damaged.…