Firefighters responded to a building collapse near Hobby Airport, Houston. According to ABC13, police received a call a little after midnight to assist the fire department at the hangar for Jet Linx, a private jet company. Video from our Eyewitness News crew shows part of the hangar collapsed on top of a plane, and debris scattered…
Very few people would turn down the opportunity to jump on an airplane and travel to a faraway country. Whether for business or leisure, getting to see a foreign land and experience something that is different from the norm is as exciting as it is memorable. It isn’t a surprise that many business professionals need…
A Canadian man may be charged $17,450 after his drunken and disorderly behavior caused the plane to make an emergency return to Montreal Airport escorted by two USAF F-15 fighter jets. The 40-year-old man will be sentenced April 18 and prosecutors are requesting Nassios pay damages and serve three years probation, according to court documents,…
Airports across Europe warned of disruptions on Tuesday (Apr 3) after a technical problem at Eurocontrol, the agency that runs the EU’s air traffic control system. The Agence France Presse news agency is now reporting that Eurocontrol has said that around half of all flights in Europe are facing delays. UPDATE Eurocontrol: As from 1520…
ESA’s space debris team provided their final estimate for reentry, forecasting a window of about four hours between 23:00 UTC on 1 April to 03:00 UTC on 2 April. Tiangong-1 was launched 30 September 2011. The space station hosted one uncrewed and 2 crewed missions during it’s life. A controlled descent was first planned at…
Stansted Airport’s terminal was partially evacuated after a bus caught fire close to the main building. At least one fire engine rushed to the scene and police diverted traffic away from the terminal. UPDATE 21:00 UTC All departing flights until midnight have now been cancelled and passengers are asked to leave the Airport. UPDATE 19:32 UTC…
Cockpit recordings show two separate airline pilots reported sightings of an unidentified flying object to the Albuquerque Air Traffic Center when flying over southeastern Arizona. On February 24, a Learjet pilot first reported the mysterious object to air traffic control while flying over the desert. “I don’t know what it was,” the pilot says. “It…
Two Mexican Aeromar ATR aircraft collided on ground at the Mexico City International Airport in Mexico on Thursday early morning. The Aeromar ATR 72-600 with registration XA-UYY collided with the tail of a parked Aeromar ATR-42-500 with registration XA-UAV during a engine run up test. XA-UYY’s port engine propeller, rudder and rear fuselage of of…
Boeing was hit Wednesday by the WannaCry computer virus. Mike VanderWel, chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out an alarming alert about the virus : “It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down,” VanderWel wrote, adding his…
The tyre of an IndiGo ATR-72 from Tirupati burst during landing at the Hyderabad airport on Wednesday night, forcing the airline to evacuate the 77 people on board. The IndiGo flight took off from Tirupati at 8.50 pm and landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad around 10 pm, The Hindu reported. The…
According to reports, an Airbus A319 has struck a ground crew member at Gatwick airport during pushback. Passengers were stuck onboard the Russia-bound aircraft for more than two hours as emergency services attended the scene. The Rossiya aircraft to St Petersburg was suddenly halted moments before take-off and kept on the tarmac. Twitter user Flora…
In a bid to save a passenger’s life, a China Eastern Airlines pilot decided to dump 30 tonnes of jet fuel in the air last Friday (March 23) in order to make an emergency landing. Chinese media reports said that a 60-year-old woman had felt unwell and complained of breathing difficulties while on flight #MU587…