A spotter captured a scaring moment at Dublin Airport. During landing in crosswind in DUblin, a Ryanair aircraft almost suffered a wind strike. While landing in South runway, the right wing of a Boeing 737-800 almost made contact with the runway. A spotter managed to capture this moment when a wind gust from left almost…
NASA’s next-generation Artemis rocket lifts off on test flight to moon. NASA’s towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating the U.S. space agency’s Artemis exploration program 50 years after the final Apollo moon mission. The 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket surged off…
Russian missiles have killed two people in NATO member Poland, a senior US intelligence official has told the AP news agency. Two people have been killed in Poland after explosions hit a farm near the border with Ukraine in what is thought to be a botched Russian missile attack. UPDATE Initial findings suggest missile that…
British passenger, 66, puts his hand up stewardess’s skirt and sexually assaults her on Jet2 flight from Leeds to Alicante – forcing an emergency landing in France. A British man faces trial in France for putting his hand up a stewardess’s skirt and sexually assaulting her on a Jet2 flight from Leeds to Alicante. The…
After a 4-month journey through space, the NASA microwave-oven sized CubeSat should have now entered the unique elongated orbit that will be used by future lunar space station. The CAPSTONE mission operations team confirmed that NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft arrived at its orbit at the Moon Sunday evening. The CubeSat completed an initial orbit insertion maneuver,…
For the first time, male pilots and cabin crew at British Airways are permitted to wear makeup and have piercings. The move comes as the airline has updated its regulations on dress code to be more inclusive of all staff, The Guardian reports. An internal memo seen by the newspaper stated that all employees are…
An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and inspired the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal died on Saturday in the airport, officials said. Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris airport authority.…
The driver of a tow truck is being blamed for an accident at OR Tambo International Airport late on Friday evening. The wing tip of an Airbus A320 of the South African Airways (SAA) that was being towed to its parking bay hit the tail of one of FlySafair’s Boeings. A FlySafair Boeing 737-800 was…
On Saturday afternoon, two planes collided in mid-air during the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Wings Over Dallas show at Dallas Executive Airport. Two planes collided about 1:30 p.m. at Dallas Executive Airport in the 5300 block of Challenger Drive, near U.S. Highway 67 in Red Bird. UPDATE According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there…
Teams conduct check-outs, preparations ahead of next Artemis I launch attempt. NASA continues to target launch of its Artemis I mission from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:04 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 16. There is a two-hour launch window for the agency’s first integrated flight test of its Space Launch System (SLS)…
A business jet caught fire at Edinburgh Airport, UK this morning. Part of a business jet has caught fire on the Bizjet ramp of Edinburgh Airport. The APU of the Learjet 60 (reg. D-CFAF) caught fire. The jet flew to Edinburgh from Alicante earlier today. An auxiliary power unit (APU) is a device on a…
A fire at one of the fuel pumps at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. DPS team were able to put the fire out and shut off the affected pump. The airport is currently performing safety inspection to ensure it is safe to return fuel service. In the meantime, there is an FAA groundstop in effect…