The evacuation was called at around 8am at one of France’s busiest airport – Charles de Gaulle. British Airways passengers of an Airbus A320 (reg. G-EUYC) were flanked by armed officers and searched by sniffer dogs after a “direct security threat” sparked the sudden evacuation of a London-bound plane. UPDATE Following additional security checks British Airways #BA303…
An Air India aircraft hit a parked ground cooling unit (GCU) truck just after landing on the runway at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident took place around 9.41pm on Friday. The GCU is ground support equipment, which supplies cold air or hot air into a parked aircraft to maintain comfortable temperatures. Officials confirmed…
Ryanair is to cancel 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, in a bid to improve punctuality of flights. The budget Irish-based airline announced the plan on Friday, saying that it was “unacceptable” that its punctuality had fallen below 80% in the first half of this month. It also said it…
The only other time I’ve seen a plane veer to one side of the runway like this was due a steering failure. Apparently not the case here as the aircraft departed normally a couple of hours later.
You are in the cockpit of the SRILANKAN Airbus A330 for a roundtrip from Colombo to Hong Kong with a stopover in Bangkok. The full 275 minute program includes 14 flights to some great destinations. Details at http://www.worldairroutes.com/Srilankan.html
NASA’s 13-year mission exploring Saturn and its moons will come to an end as the spacecraft deliberately dives into Saturn’s atmosphere and plunges itself into the planet. Even then, Cassini will transmit new data about the planet’s composition as long as its antenna remains pointed toward Earth, with the assist from small thrusters. No spacecraft…
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (reg. EI-DLV) from Stansted Airport to Copenhagen was diverted after it lost one of the two nose wheels after take off. The flight #FR7384 safely landed runway 27 at East Midlands Airport. The traffic was stopped during a while at East Midlands Airport to allow fire brigade to meet the aircraft right after…
“On September 14, after landing on the Shaikovka base a Tu-22M3 skidded off the runway due to technical reasons. The crew members were not injured, “the Russian ministry said. Six such strategic bombers on Thursday appeared above the Baltic Sea. They are rare here – the last time a mission in the Tu-22M3 region was…
North Korea fired what is presumed to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile. It flew over Japan before landing in the North Pacific Ocean, according to military authorities here. The missile launch came days after the UNSC unanimously adopted a new set of sanctions against the North for its sixth and most powerful nuclear denotation test…
This is part of the AIR FRANCE Airbus A340-300 film featuring the Paris to St Maarten route. Very rarely do we post a video with music but we thought this was an appropriate clip to include a soundtrack. Note that on the full film you also get the full approach and landing from other angles…
