A French inventor and entrepreneur on Sunday soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders. Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the…
British Airways has announced that all direct flights to and from Heathrow and Beijing will move to new state-of-the-art Daxing airport from October 27th . The flag-carrier follows Finnair into the airport. With a massive 52,000m2 available for retail, food and beverage and service, facilities at Beijing Daxing for British Airways’ customers will include over…
Boeing’s 737 jet program manager, Eric Lindblad, will retire in a matter of weeks after roughly 12 months on the job, according to a company memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. Lindblad’s departure, after a 34-year career at Boeing, comes as the world’s largest planemaker navigates one of the worst crises in its history. Boeing’s…
The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in control of the plane “until the end”, French investigators reportedly suspect, after gaining access to “crucial” flight data. The readouts “lend weight” to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, they were cited as saying. The revelations based on Boeing data came days…
An Air Canada plane on a flight from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia, after travelling from Toronto, encountered sudden and severe turbulence Thursday, leaving more than three dozen people with injuries, the airline said. Flight AC33 was diverted to Honolulu’s international airport around 6:46 a.m. local time, where medical staff were on standby to examine the…
The launch of a rocket carrying an imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as failed about two minutes after liftoff from a base in French Guiana. European rocket-launch service provider Arianespace, which markets the satellite, said in a brief statement on Thursday that the Wednesday night launch ended after a “launcher anomaly occurred”…
A 22-year-old aircraft maintenance engineer of SpiceJet was killed after the landing gear door of a plane closed on him at the Kolkata airport early on Wednesday. A ground staff found the engineer’s body, hanging from the belly of a 90-seater Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft, at 1.45am. His head and left arm were stuck inside…
A Virgin Australia flight has had to make an emergency landing after an “engineering issue” was reported and white vapour was seen coming from the aircraft’s right engine. Flight #VA69 from Melbourne to Hong Kong had been flying for around half an hour when the pilot made the decision to turn back. The captain requested…
Flights are suspended at Gatwick Airport due to “an air traffic control systems issue”. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 4 Traffic is resuming as @emirates #EK9 was about to divert to Heathrow but now heading to Gatwick. UPDATE 3 easyJet #U28552 is landing at Gatwick. UPDATE 2 According to ATC, Gatwick Airport is…
A Delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing in North Carolina due to engine failure. Nearly 150 passengers on Delta Flight #DL1425 were headed from Atlanta to Baltimore on Monday when one of the aircraft’s engines had a problem. A video recorded by a passenger shows how a metal nose cone was bouncing…
Switzerland’s Patrouille Suisse squadron has apologized for making a fly-by over the wrong municipality. Instead of marking the centenary of an aviation pioneer’s death, it startled visitors at a yodeling event. The commander of the Swiss air force’s aerobatics team has apologized after a fly-by on Saturday that was meant to have taken place over the birthplace…
A stowaway who survived a 10-hour flight from India to London now works at Heathrow airport. In October 1996, two brothers from India sneaked onto a British Airways plane and attempted to enter the UK as stowaways. Pardeep Saini, then 22, and his brother Vijay, 19, braved temperatures of -60C and as they flew at…