A security breach at Orlando Melbourne International Airport caused a lockdown early Thursday morning. Melbourne International Airport is closed until further notice due to police activity. According to an airport official, an unauthorized student boarded a commercial jet. The student was removed from the plane and is being questioned. Security sweeps of the airfield are…
At least 30 passengers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jaipur flight suffered ear and nose bleeding due to low cabin pressure during the ascent here on Thursday, an official said. The flight #9W697 with 166 passengers and five crew, was forced to return back to Mumbai shortly after take-off, said a Jet Airways spokesperson. Several passengers…
The most important part of an airline’s brand is its name and getting that wrong would seem to be impossible. However this has happened with one of the airline’s Boeing 777 (reg. B-HNO) arriving back in Hong Kong with a rather glaring error. The airline is going to be correcting that immediately. When human beings…
According to Russian Defense Ministry, a MiG-31 aircraft crashed in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Preliminary data indicate that a technical flaw had caused the MiG-31 fighter jet’s crash, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Both pilots have ejected safely. The plane fell 17 km from the air base. The circumstances of the disaster are being investigated. According to some…
An Air India plane with some 370 passengers on board from New Delhi to New York was supposed to land at JFK airport on September 11, but landed in Newark instead because of a series of technical failures, bad weather and low fuel. The captain in charge of the 15-hour flight could be heard fretting…
A plane of the national airline, Air Algérie, was forced to abort takeoff at Houari Boumediene airport in Algiers. Air Algerie Airbus A330-200 (reg. 7T-VJA) performing flight #AH4062 with 202 passengers on board to the Dubai. The plane was due to takeoff at around 22:00. During takeoff an engine failed, shortly before V1 speed. The pilot decided…
In a viral video circulating on social media back in May, a male passenger on a flight from Xi An to Yinchuan is shown getting up from one knee after successfully proposing to his girlfriend, who happens to be a stewardess on the flight. The teary-eyed lass then spoke through the inflight announcement system: “I…
Following an incident on board with a passenger, an Air Austral flight departing from Paris CDG airport and bound for Mayotte was canceled on Monday, 17 September. An Air Austral flight was canceled Monday night due to an incident on board with a passenger. Chartered by the company Hifly, the A330 was due to depart from…
A Russian military aircraft with 14 people on board has disappeared from radar after flying over Syria, Russia’s defence ministry says. “Connection has been lost with the crew of a Russian Il-20 plane over the Mediterranean Sea,” the ministry said. Contact was lost at about 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Monday, it added. UPDATE The…
The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) took to the skies today, completing a maiden flight from the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse, France to the Airbus site in Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft is now being prepared for cabin installation and painting in the airline’s special A380 livery. ANA placed a firm order for three…
Ryanair will train up to 450 new pilots over the next five years as part of a new training partnership with a Cork-based international flight school. The pilots will train for 16 months intensively at the school, which the budget airline is running in conjunction with Cork’s Atlantic Flight Training Academy to support further growth across…
