Flight operations halted at Tel Aviv Airport due to ongoing rockets attack. With Israel being engulfed with over a hundred rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip, air traffic towards Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is being redirected towards Greece and Cyprus, Israeli media reported. Air traffic is suspended inside and outside Israel due to…
An Antonov An-124 suffered a runway excursion during the night at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos. Antonov An-124 (reg. UR-82007) ran beyond the end of landing runway 09L at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos Airport in Brazil. Flight #ADB3829 from Paramaribo came to a stop after its nose gear rolled few meters over the grass resulting in minimal damage. The incident…
Russian Su-27 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept tactical aircraft of the French Air Force over the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center (at the Russian Defense Ministry) told reporters on Monday. Russian radars detected air targets approaching the national sovereign airspace. Su-27 fighter jets of the Southern Military District’s air defense units on…
Sydney Airport’s east-west runway accepted its first flights yesterday, Sunday 9 May 2021, more than a year after it was closed to accommodate the extraordinary demand for aircraft parking due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The east-west runway accommodated almost 50 grounded aircraft from almost all domestic airlines during the crisis. The move to re-open the…
Fire crews have responded to an incident at Tauranga Airport. Passengers have been evacuated from a plane. Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirm they have been on the scene at the airport. The Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 (reg. ZK-NEZ) has been evacuated due to smoke alarm. “We have been on the scene at Tauranga Airport…
The remnants of China’s largest rocket have plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit. Most of the debris burned up in the atmosphere, it reported, citing the Chinese Manned Space Engineering office. Parts of the…
A woman has been arrested after smuggling an estimated $40,000 worth of cocaine in seven pairs of shoes upon her return to the United States from Jamaica. The incident occurred on Sunday, May 2, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when a 21-year-old woman from Georgia was pulled aside for further inspection by U.S. Customs and…
These images were shot in the Pyrenees (France) in September 2019, near the Col du Tourmalet in Barèges. This mountain field is also named Castillon de la Laquette, reference LF6528. Very steep, and ultimately relatively long taking this slope into account, care must be taken to conserve enough energy to reach the platform and not…
The second stage of China’s space rocket CZ-5B, which carried into space the core module of a future space station, may enter the dense layer of the atmosphere over the Pacific on May 9, Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Friday. “According to calculations made as of May 7, the second stage may enter…
Hooded and tied to a target, a young pilot suffered for long minutes the shots of a Mirage fighter jet made near him. Traumatized by this episode which occurred two years ago in Corsica, the student pilot ended up filing a complaint against the authors of the hazing who filmed everything. Two years, on the…
On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured the humming sound of the blades and the din of wind. For the first time, a spacecraft on another…
The pilot of flight MH370 that disappeared seven years ago made numerous turns to avoid detection before the passenger jet took its final, fatal course, a new study found. MH370 vanished in March, 2014, with Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah dying alongside 238 passengers and crew, including six Australians. The research by aerospace engineer…