A Detroit-bound flight from France was forced to make an emergency landing on a Canadian island after travelers were left contending with an unruly passenger who had broken free of restraints. Delta flight DL97 took off from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport Friday en route to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan with 261 passengers.…
US authorities scrambled fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive aircraft that violated the airspace over the Washington DC area. The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of an aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said. No survivors…
Airbus is closing a potential record order with up to 500 narrowbody A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier, Indigo. The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said on the sidelines of an airline industry meeting in Istanbul. Airbus and…
British Airways’ first flight from London to Beijing in more than three years touched down at Beijing Daxing Airport yesterday. This was British Airways’ first passenger flight between the two cities since January 2020, when the route was suspended due to the pandemic. The resumption reclaims the airline’s exclusivity as the only British carrier operating…
Jet2 flight from Newcastle to Tenerife is declaring an emergency. Jet2 flight #LS517 from Newcastle to Tenerife is declaring an emergency and diverting. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-JZBK) took off from Newcastle, UK at 15:40 local time. The crew declared an emergency off North Spain coast. The aircraft is diverting to Porto, Portugal. UPDATE LS517…
Saudi Arabia is to open up a new national airline, to be known as Riyadh Air. Based at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, the airline hopes to grow to serve more than 100 destinations by 2030, and become the largest airline in the Middle East. The airline will be led by Tony Douglas, a former…
Two airliners aborted landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across runways on which the other planes had been cleared to land. United Airlines and Alaska Airlines aircraft were forced to abort landing attempts at San Francisco International Airport due to a Southwest Boeing 737 crossing…
Singer MC Pipokinha has been slammed after she was seen flashing her bum next to a pilot in the cockpit of a plane ahead of a flight. The Brazilian star, formally known as Doroth Helena de Sousa Alves, is known for x-rated stunts but her latest outrageous video has sparked fury online. The bizarre stunt…
On Friday, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to Mars. Tune in on Friday from 17:45 CEST to be the first to see new pictures from Mars, beamed down every ~50 seconds from the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on…
Two Danish F16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Norwegian plane bound for Oslo Airport. On Thursday evening, the Defense Command for Northern Jutland announced that two Danish F-16 fighter jets broke the sound barrier. Two fighter jets from the Danish QRA in Skrydstrup took the sky when the airport authorities had reason to believe…
The northwest runway, which reopened yesterday, is currently not being used for landings until further notice. The reason for this are reports from pilots about an increased number of damaged tires after landing. Frankfurt Airport tweeted: The safety of our passengers and employees is of the utmost priority. All colleagues involved are working intensively to…
Air New Zealand will weigh some passengers before they board international flights to determine the average weight of their fliers. The airline will conduct the voluntary weigh-ins as part of a survey in June. “The survey is essential to the safe and efficient operation of the aircraft and is a Civil Aviation Authority requirement,” the…