After the emergency landing of a passenger plane in a cornfield near Moscow, the two pilots have received top honours for courage and heroism. President Vladimir Putin ordered captain Damir Yusupov and co-pilot Georgy Murzin be given Russia’s highest state award, the Hero of Russia, said the Kremlin on Friday. He granted the Order of…
Norwegian South West police said they were notified of an Icelandic man in his 60s trying to get into the cockpit. The flight #W62427 was forced to turn around and land in Stavanger airport just after 9am on Wednesday. Norwegian South West police wrote on Twitter: “We are moving out to Stavanger airport after reporting…
Boeing delayed the entry into service of an ultra-long-range version of its forthcoming 777X widebody. The delay in the slower-selling, longer-range 777-8 will hamper Boeing’s ability to provide a plane in line with the schedule for Qantas Airways Ltd’s plan for 21-hour non-stop Sydney-London flights. The Australian airline had hoped for first deliveries of the…
An incident at Shannon Airport involved a Boeing 767-300 aircraft. Emergency services are in attendance. All passengers and crew have disembarked. The Omni Air International jet Boeing 767-300 just was about to depart when the crew had to return to the terminal. Omni Air International is a civilian airline that transports personnel for the…
An Airbus A321 plane (reg. VQ-BOZ) of Russia’s Ural Airlines had to land in a field near Moscow after engine fire on Wednesday. The plane crash landed in a field near the village of Rybaki, which is some 3-5 km away from the runway of Moscow-Zhukovsky Airport (UUBW), Russia. The plane performing flight #U6178 with…
One man was able to pull off the ultimate family vacation thanks to amassing an incredible amount of airline mileage points — and his entire 33-member family benefitted from it. Sam Pratt was able to take his family, ranging from the ages of two to 72, to Hawaii for free after saving over a million…
Last week @Delta gave me my own private jet…kind of. pic.twitter.com/p14OGLw1jv — vincent peone (@vincentpeone) August 12, 2019 A man got to fly on a “private” jet last week when he turned out to be the only passenger booked on his Delta flight. Vincent Peone, a New York City-based writer and director, was taking a…
An El Al Airlines flight attendant who contracted measles after a person with the disease boarded a flight to Israel has died. Israel’s Ministry of Health confirmed that a person infected with measles was onboard El Al Airlines flight 002 from New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv on March 26. Ministry…
A China Eastern Airlines’ flight from New York to Shanghai was diverted to JFK airport after metal wrapping from the aircraft’s wing fell off. Flight MU588 took off from JFK International Airport in New York at 4:25pm on Monday US time and returned to the airport at 7:25pm. A photo taken by a passenger showed…
Norwegian Air is to axe its six routes from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to the US and Canada from September 15 this year. The airline has said the routes “are no longer commercially viable” and “several thousand customers” will be impacted by the route closures. Norwegian Air began operating routes between Dublin, Cork, Shannon and the…
A Norwegian Boeing 787 sustained damage while pushing back for Flight #DI7017 from London’s Gatwick Airport to New York’s JFK on Monday, prompting the aircraft to be taken out of service. Passengers left the Dreamliner (reg. G-CKWB) without incident and boarded a replacement plane to continue their journey. Norwegian said the 787 Dreamliner was pushed…
Hong Kong International Airport cancelled all departures on Monday, as thousands of anti-government protesters occupied and caused disruption. Passengers have been told not to travel to the airport, which is one of the world’s busiest transport hubs. Today saw the fourth and largest day of airport sit-ins by anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, thousands of…