JustPlanes spent a week in Nepal to focus on one of the most extreme airports : LUKLA! On landing the end of the runway is a wall, on takeoff the end of the runway is a drop in the valley. Weather conditions are often bad and can change in minutes and the runway is very…
A dog checked as cargo by a passenger on a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport Monday morning escaped before being loaded onto the plane, causing a runway to be shut temporarily and disrupting a total of 14 flights. The large poodle had been placed in a special basket but when JAL staff tried…
A piece of loading equipment caught fire at Hong Kong International Airport next to the plane that was due to to fly from the city to Los Angeles. The Boeing 777 was close to the terminal shortly after 5pm local time (10am GMT) when the fire started to the left of the plane. One man was injured…
As seen from behind, all the props spin anticlockwise. The wingtip vortices spin anticlockwise from the right wing, clockwise from the left. The interactions between all that spinning air are obviously complex, but the outside right propeller, at least, should enhance the right wingtip vortex, as they are spinning the same way. The wind probably…
Minister of Tourism & Economic Affairs Mellissa Arrindell-Doncher on Wednesday announced that Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA/SXM Airport) will open to accept all commercial flights as per October 10, 2017. “We will be back in business,” the Minister said. The symbolism of the date was also important to the Minister, marking seven years since St.…
JustPlanes filmed TUI Netherlands Boeing 787 on the route from Amsterdam to Curaçao via St Maarten and in this short video you see the Pilotsview on the return into Schiphol’s Polderbaan. For the full 4h30min film visit http://www.worldairroutes.com/TUI787.html
Missing parts of Air France A380 (reg. F-HPJE) engine have been spotted on the ice sheet by helicopter. According to the BEA, they were located on a desert area covered with ice, located about 150 km southeast of the town of Paamiut, located on the west coast of Greenland. The missing parts were located by using…
Footage has emerged showing fire crews dousing a blaze next to a easyJet A319 at Liverpool airport. Smoke was seen rising near an easyJet plane after it appeared aGPU (Ground Power Unit) had burst into flames next to the aircraft. Witnesses who captured video and photos of the blaze thought the easyJet plane was on…
In 1997 JustPlanes filmed Paris CDG Airport. Back then a lot of airlines operated Boeing 747s. In this 3 minute video you can see some of them, sadly none of them fly into Paris today or are around for that matter! This full 2 hour video features 125 Airlines and close to 400 Aircraft. For…
Several Air Traffic Controller Unions in France have called for industrial action in support of a national call for strike on Tuesday 10th October. The industrial action will start on the evening of Monday 9th at 17:00 and end on the morning of Wednesday 11th at 04:00 Local time. Eurocontrol is expecting a significant impact with…
