Final assembly of the newest member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, has started and is on track for the first flight planned in mid-2018. The A330-800 complements the A330-900, the largest member of the A330neo Family. With its 242-tonne Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) as base variant, the A330-800 can operate routes of up to…
British officials say a Heathrow Airport security worker has been arrested in an airport toilet after seven kilograms (15 pounds) of cocaine was seized. The National Crime Agency said Saturday the 30-year-old man, from London, was arrested Thursday with a 37-year-old Colombian man in a lavatory in Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Officials say the Colombian…
British Airways owner IAG has confirmed it is buying the majority of the Gatwick take-off and landing slots being sold by the administrators for fallen carrier Monarch. IAG, which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus, said the price it was paying was “commercially confidential”, although it is thought to have agreed a multi-million pound deal…
A tow tug caught fire as it was pulling a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 to a departure gate at Singapore Changi Airport at around 4am on Wednesday (Nov 29). There were no passengers on board the aircraft at the time, SIA’s spokesman said. The plane was being moved from a remote parking bay to Terminal…
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korean media say, quoting military officials. South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the missile flew eastward. UPDATE 20:09 UTC Korea’s missile flew around 960km at altitude of 4,500km. UPDATE 20:03 UTC US has detected, tracked 1 North Korean launch that it believes was an intercontinental ballistic missile.…
Russia has scrambled a Su-30 fighter jet after detecting an American Р8А Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea, according to a Defense Ministry statement. The Russian fighter jet buzzed the US Navy reconnaissance plane at around 1pm local time (10:00 GMT) as it was flying over the neutral waters of the Black Sea, the…
London City Airport is evacuated due to fire alarm. UPDATE 16:48 UTC False alarm, end of incident. Passengers are evacuated from the terminal. This is the second time in 2 weeks that fire vehicles are scrambled due to suspected fire. Tracking
Sixteen passengers, including a pilot, were injured when a DHC-6 Twin Otter of Tara Air crashed during take-off at Simikot Airport in Humla on Tuesday. Province 6 police chief AIG Rana Bahadur Chand said the plane, flying to Surkhet, attempted to take-off from the runway but failed after its tyre burst. The aircraft with call sign…
Last night at JFK Airport, an Egypt Air Flight #MS986, a Boeing 777 on its way to Cairo, was moving on a taxiway when its right wing touched the left wing of Virgin Atlantic Airlines Airbus A333 flight #VS4 to London Heathrow. #PAPD ARFF Unit responded to Taxiway K, JFK, at 7:05 pm, Monday, 11/27/17.…
The Indonesian government has closed Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali as Mount Agung continues to pump potentially dangerous ash into the atmosphere. At the same time authorities have raised the state of alert to its highest level, and expanded the exclusion zone around the rumbling volcano. The decision to close the airport will leave…
Passengers were stranded on the tarmac of Newark Airport for hours Sunday after some of their plane’s tires blew out while landing, officials said. United Airlines Flight #UA961 was landing in Newark around 1:30 p.m. from Frankfurt, Germany when the Boeing 777-222 “experienced tire issues,” a spokesperson for the airline said. Runway 22L was temporaly…
According to Russian authorities, while preparing for take-off, the Antonov An-24 skidded off runway. The incident took place on November 27, at Evensk in the Magadan Region, around 13:57 local time. On board, the 47 passengers were not injured and the aircraft also was not damaged. According to preliminary information, the reason for the incident…