Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe and First Officer Akhilesh Kumar were both killed in the crash of Air India Express flight #IX1344. Captain Sathe was a decorated air force officer who, according to a family member, had survived a military plane crash in the 1990s. First Officer Kumar leaves behind a pregnant wife who is expecting…
The Air India Express plane, carrying 190 people from Dubai, on Friday touched down near a taxiway that is around 1,000 metres from the beginning of the runway at the Kozhikode airport before breaking up into two pieces, according to AAI. The pilot of the ill-fated flight #IX1344 could not sight the runway in the…
A Canadair water bomber has crashed in Portugal while taking part in the extinction of fires in the Lobios forest, on the border with Spain. The CL-215-1A10 (reg. EC-HET) has crashed on a hillside while firefighting near Lobios, Ourense, Spain. UPDATE One of the pilots has died, the other is in critical condition. Both…
Air India Express Flight No IX1344 from Dubai to Calicut skidded off the runway. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. VT-AXH) has crashed on landing in heavy rain at Calicut, India from Dubai. UPDATE Death toll rises to 18 and more than 100 injured. UPDATE The chairman of India’s DGCA reported 16 people have lost their lives…
A Kenya Air Force Harbin Y-12-II suffered an accident at Dhobley runway in Somalia. There were no serious injuries to the 10 people on board but the aircraft was seriously damaged. The landing gear as well as the left-hand wing have collapsed. The accident happened after the aircraft had taken off from Dhobley Airstrip after…
The remuneration of Air France pilots is partly linked to the hours flown. Hence the decline observed since April. The pilots of Air France and its low-cost subsidiary Transavia have seen their salaries decrease significantly since April, “efforts made necessary” by the Covid-19 crisis, the SNPL union estimated on Monday. “The airline pilots of Air…
The airline plans to fly to London Heathrow from September. Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said it has secured slots at the London Heathrow Airport, which will allow the airline to commence flights to the UK from next month. Sources at SpiceJet said it has got one daily slot and the airline plans to operate…
German airline Lufthansa has become the latest to recommence services from Birmingham Airport. The company has resumed daily flights this week between the city and Munich after they were paused because of the coronavirus crisis. This latest move follows last month’s announcement by Jet2 that its summer programme of flights and holidays had returned to…
WizzAir Airbus A320 (reg. HA-LWH) left wing trailing edge and flap were damaged when an airstair vehicle hit the parked A320 from behind at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria. Credit photo: Dragiya Stoychev
A passenger looked on in shock as a stubborn pigeon refused to give up its perch on a plane engine during takeoff. The unusual incident took place during a flight from London, with the pigeon refusing to budge even as the plane began to accelerate rapidly along the runway. In the footage, the pigeon attempted…
A C-130 of the Cameroon Air Force suffered a runway excursion after landing at Maroua-Salam Airport, Cameroon. The aircraft landed on a wet runway and failed to come to a stop on the runway. Several persons have reportedly been injured.
Virgin Atlantic Airways has filed for bankruptcy protection for its United States business, as it tries to nail down a $1.6 billion rescue plan announced last month. It’s the second of Richard Branson’s airlines to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic, after Virgin Australia filed for “administration” — a form of bankruptcy in countries like…