Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the UN in New York to announced a commitment by the carrier to order 40 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in what was seen as a reaction to tension between Turkey and the EU. The agreement stops short of an actual order and the number of aircraft quoted indicates the details…
A plane crashed into a pair of deer while trying to land on the runway in northern Alberta on Tuesday. Police said the two deer jumped in front of the aircraft and hit the propeller. It happened at the MEG Energy Christina Lake Aerodrome, east of Conklin, Alta. The Dash 8, was owned by Sunwest…
Emirates will be the first airline to receive Boeing’s all-new 777X aircraft, when it gets rolled out in 2020, a senior Boeing executive confirmed, putting an end to the debate on which of its seven customers were going to launch the US planemaker’s flagship aircraft. Emirates will receive its first 777X aircraft in mid-2020, racing…
In 2006 JustPlanes filmed a Jetairfly Cockpit Film. It featured the Boeing 767-300 to Cancun & Montego Bay, the Boeing 737-800 to Cairo & Sharm El Sheikh as well as the Fokker 100 to Nador. What you see in this video clip is from the return flight into Brussels. For the full 3 hour film…
A Maldivian seaplane crash landed, this Thursday. Associate General Manager of Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL), Hassan Areef reported to “Sun” that the seaplane fell into the Hulhule’ lagoon. He said all passengers onboard were unharmed, and that the MACL will be releasing additional information after investigation. The pilot and 14 tourists that were…
Just after 11:00 on Wednesday, evacuation of the new terminal was initiated after finding a suspicious object. When scanning a luggage a grenade-like object was revealed. The airport terminal, T3, was immediately evacuated, reports police officer Lars Geitle. The object was examined and it turned out it was made of ceramics. A police car arrived at…
An Oman Air international flight #WY811 from Muscat to Bangkok was diverted to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad (India), due to a medical emergency. The health of a 63-year-old passenger travelling on the Oman Air flight #WY811 suddenly deteriorated during the journey. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (reg. A4O-SA) was diverted to Hyderabad airport and was rushed to…
Two RAF Typhoons from Coningsby have escorted a Ryanair passenger jet into Stansted airport as Quick Reaction Alert. The aircraft was a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (reg. EI-FZH) flight #FR2145 from Kaunas to London Luton. UPDATE 09:03 UTC Security threat confirmed as hoax. UPDATE 09:01 UTC Sniffer dogs going round the luggage. UPDATE 08:52 UTC Passengers escorted to buses…
American Airlines flight #AA62 to Paris was forced to divert to Shannon this morning. The Boeing 777-200 (reg. N790AN) had to divert due to cargo hold fire indication. The fire vehicles were scrambled to meet the aircraft right after landing. Passengers has been disembarked on the tarmac.
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was “initially similar” to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. The details were contained in a 440-page final report…
Klm along with Air France will not return to St. Maarten until the end of October 2017 following the devastation caused to Princess Juliana Airport by Hurricane Irma. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is adjusting its flight schedules to the Caribbean region from the start of the winter schedule 2017. Due to the current situation,…
United said Thursday that it has plans for Houston-Sydney service, an 8,596-mile flight that means the carrier will operate the three longest flights offered by a U.S. airline, as well as the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-longest flights in the world. The service, aboard a Boeing 787-9 seating 252 passengers, will begin Jan. 18.