Fifty firefighters are battling a major blaze at the east Belfast site of international aerospace company Bombardier. Describing the blaze as “a significant incident”, a Fire & Rescue Service spokesman said the fire was in the Airport Road manufacturing facility, which was “well alight”. Seven fire appliances, including an aerial one, were dispatched as a…
The 35-year-old former journalist and public affairs officer for the Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds — the official aerobatic team of the Royal Canadian Air Force — died last week as the jet she was flying in crashed in Kamloops, B.C. She is being remembered as a storyteller who made an impact on everyone she crossed…
A repatriation flight to London Heathrow declared an emergency and was forced to land in Faro as a passenger died on board. The Air Tanker Airbus A330 (G-VYGM) was performing a repatriation flight from Accra to London Heathrow on behalf of Titan Airways. The crew declared an emergency and the flight diverted to Faro, Portugal…
Pakistani tv is showing images of scrape marks on the Karachi runway, purportedly caused by the engines of PIA flight #PK8303. The photos confirm the A320 made a go-around after the engines touched the runway. The ATC was also mentioning a belly landing. PIA Airbus A320 (aircraft registration AP-BLD) engines scrape marks on Karachi Airport…
Jet2 has delayed the resume of flight operations until July 1st. A spokesperson said: “The health and safety of our customers and colleagues is our absolute priority, and we are continuing to monitor the situation very closely.” A statement continued: “Our commitment to working in partnership with independent travel agents has never been stronger, and…
Pakistan International Airlines PK8303 had “lost the engines” and was attempting “belly landing” before it crashed in a residential area in Karachi on Friday, an audio clip of the ATC’s conversation with the pilot has revealed. Based on the audio clip, the plane went on a go-around. The tower can be heard warning the pilot…
This is the first time that American strategic long-range bombers are exercising in Swedish airspace, Dagens Nyheter reports. Norway’s Defense command says Wednesday’s exercise is “one of the largest of its kind, and several allied and partners trained along with the US B-1B.” The B-1B bomber is one of the three types of US strategic…
An investigation is under way after the rear door of an Air Corps helicopter detached and fell more than 250m into the grounds of a Dublin secondary school. The crew of the AW139 aircraft had successfully completed a life-saving mission to a Dublin hospital and were returning to Baldonnel Aerodrome for fuel when the incident…
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft A320 near Jinnah international airport Karachi. PIA spokesperson Abdul Sattar confirmed the crash and added that Flight 8303 was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi. Please upload for updates… UPDATE Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of PIA A320 have been…
Ryanair’s Laudamotion said today it would close its main base in Vienna after the transport union refused to accept pay cuts for employees of the carrier hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. “Lauda deeply regrets the loss of more than 300 jobs for its A320-team and the closing of Lauda’s A320 base in Vienna on…
The flight operations resumed at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Thursday noon after Cyclone Amphan had completely left the runway inundated. The operations resumed from 12 noon on Thursday after the cyclone ravaged the airport at a wind speed of 130 kmph. The first flight, a Russian chartered plane landed…
