It looks a disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangalore International Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor – used for cutting grass beside the runway – was…
A panel the size of a laptop computer fell off one of the Japanese prime minister’s jumbo jets, the defense force said on Friday. Officials noticed the panel was missing from the Boeing 747, one of two jetliners used by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for foreign trips, after it flew from Tokyo to its base…
French fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday after Air Algerie #AH1460 to Lyon after loss of communication. On Tuesday 9 January 2018, Air Algerie Boeing 737-800 (reg. 7T-VKK) was interecepted by a Mirage 2000 scrambled from France Air Force airbase of Orange. Air Algerie flight #AH1460 from Constantine to Lyon restablished communication with Marseille ATC control…
An UPS Airlines MD-11 (reg. N271UP) from Seoul skidded off end of runway 23R after landing Almaty Airport, Kazakhstan at 16:40 local time. For a reason still unknown, instead of following green lights and the “follow me”, the aircraft didn’t turn right but continued to move 20 meters into snow and red lights at the…
Air India flight was forced to return to Indira Gandhi International airport here shortly after take-off due to a crack in the windshield of the Boeing 787 aircraft, an official said. Delhi-Kolkata #AI20 took off from Delhi at 2.25 pm but returned to the airport due to a crack in its windshield, said an Air…
FAA investigators launched an investigation after an Aeromexico aircraft was ordered to abort a landing when it lined up on the wrong runway which was occupied by another commercial jet. Aeromexico flight #AM668 from Mexico City Tuesday 09 January 2018 at around 19:45 UTC, was cleared to land on Runway 28R, and correctly read back…
China has ordered 184 Airbus A320 planes to be delivered to 13 airlines, French officials said Wednesday as President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up a state visit to the country. The value of the deal was not immediately disclosed but under the company’s list prices for the single-aisle planes, it could total at least $18 billion.…
An Indian flight attendant has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle out nearly $500,000 out of the country. Acting on a tip-off, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials intercepted a Jet Airways flight leaving Delhi for Hong Kong at 2am on Monday. Authorities searched the baggage belonging to the flight attendant and found nearly…
On Friday, the U.S. Air Force released footage of “safe and standard” intercepts of Russian aircraft during NATO’s Baltic air policing mission. The video footage of two intercepts from Nov. 23 and on Dec. 13, 2017, was taken from cameras inside the cockpits of F-15s from the 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, belonging to the 48th…
The first structurally complete airframe for the new BelugaXL rolled out from its assembly hangar in Toulouse, France this month. Once operational, a fleet of these next-generation airlifters will be used to transport completed sections of Airbus aircraft among the company’s European production sites and to its final assembly lines in France, Germany and Spain.…
Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorised commercial flights between Egypt and Russia to resume following a two-year suspension. The move is expected to place further pressure on the British government to review their own stance on flights to Egypt. “We are very pleased that flights between Egypt and Russia will now resume, as it’s a…
