About third of Norwegian Air Dreamliner feet is currently out of service. Six of Norwegian Dreamliners are currently parked at Prestwick Airport due to Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine issues: LN-LNA (B788) LN-LNB (B788) LN-LND (B788) LN-LNG (B788) LN-LNH (B788) SE-RXY (B789) Rolls-Royce will take longer than expected to fix problems with its Trent 1000 engine,…
The U.S. Air Force’s unpiloted X-37B space plane landed back on Earth Sunday (Oct. 27) after a record 780 days in orbit , racking up the fifth ultra-long mission for the military’s mini-shuttle fleet. The X-37B’s Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission ended with a smooth autonomous touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility of NASA’s…
This is the moment a bird strikes the cockpit windscreen of a Boeing 737 mid-flight and causes the shocked pilot to drop his phone. The pilot had been filming the landscape through the cockpit window with his smartphone at the time. Local media said the incident involved a Russian Boeing 737.
Indian budget airline IndiGo is close to placing a near-record order for over 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth at least $33 billion at notional catalogue prices to cement its position as India’s largest carrier by market share. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that IndiGo, part of InterGlobe Aviation, was putting the finishing touches…
A U.S.-led investigation into a series of engine failures on Airbus’s smallest jet, the A220, is studying whether a software change allowed unexpected vibrations that tore parts and forced three emergency landings. The airline Swiss halted its fleet of A220 jets for more than a day on Oct. 15 after a third flight in…
Boeing is cutting the production of 787 aircraft to 12 per month, down from 14, as the company experiences weaker demand as a result of the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Wednesday on the company’s third-quarter earnings call. This lower production level will begin in 2020 and…
Flights to nine destinations in Cuba, not including Havana, will be suspended by the Department of Transportation. The department issued a notice on Friday suspending US commercial flights from flying to the Cuban destinations. The notice will take effect on December 10. The announcement is another step in the Trump administration’s attempt to tighten the…
A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines is alleging in a lawsuit that two pilots streamed live video from inside an airplane bathroom to an iPad in the cockpit. Renee Steinaker, of Maricopa County, Arizona, claims in her lawsuit against Southwest and the two pilots that she discovered a livestream from a plane’s restroom in February…
British Airways has made its first flight into the new state-of-the-art Beijing Daxing International Airport. The flag-carrier thus becomes the first international airline to do so since the airport was officially opened last month. The maiden flight, on a Boeing 777-300, arrived on Sunday morning at 09:15 local time. British Airways will run a daily…
A flight attendant had to force a couple to stop performing a sex act on a crowded passenger jet. A couple has been filmed performing sexual act during a Rossiya Airlines flight from Moscow to Vladivostok. The man, 41, and woman, 43, were held by police after they were accused of performing oral sex on…
Strong storm winds in Memphis, Tennessee, blew a jetbridge weighing several tonnes across the tarmac at the airport. The bridge collided with other vehicles on the airfield in the process. The incident was caught on Memphis Airport’s CCTV, which demonstrated the sheer power of the storm in dramatic fashion. Sharing the footage on social media,…
The amusing scene was captured after a pilot noticed engine difficulties half an hour into a flight to Miami, Florida. The problems forced them to return to Santa Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, where they originally departed from. Passengers were believed to be on Swift Air flight WQ1996 and were informed of the problems. Video…