The US has conducted a joint military exercise with South Korea, flying two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula. Two bombers operating out of Andersen Air Force Base in Guam carried out the drills, US Pacific Air Forces said in a statement. It said the US warplanes flew with F-15K from the South Korean air…
Two Royal Air Force fighter jets were scrambled this afternoon to intercept an aircraft with loss of communication as part of QRA exercice. The two Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Coningsby airbase to intercept a French aircraft over the Channel. UPDATE The Ministry of Defence has since confirmed the jets were dispatched as part of an exercise…
Two fire engines were scrambled on to the tarmac at Kiev Airport this morning to deal with the incident after the flight#BA882 from Heathrow landed in the Ukrainian capital early in afternoon. A video was posted by Damian De C @dboxxer on Twitter is showing British Airways A320 surrounded by foam, fire fighters and fire…
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cleared a plane to take off after the flight made an emergency landing at the Allama Iqbal airport early today. Flight #PK755 was enroute to Riyadh from Sialkot when the pilot observed smoke in the cockpit, leading him to suspect the engine had caught fire. Subsequent initial inspection by the…
According to Reuters, Air France A380, reg. F-HPJE stranded in Goose Bay will return to France. The rump of the broken engine will be taken off the wing and flown to UK, where manufacturer General Electric can examine it in Cardiff repair workshop. A spare engine will be mounted on the right wing but this will…
During the night, the wingtip of an Airbus A320 clipped the stabilizer of an other A320 at Mexico Airport. The incident occurred during taxi. The two aircraft belonging to Viva Aerobus airline suffered damages. The first Airbus A320 (reg. XA-VAK) landed from Villahermosa, the second (reg. XA-VAV) landed from Guadalajara at around midnight (local time). The two aircraft will…
Global airlines carried 3.8 billion passengers last year, according to new statistics published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The figure was up 7pc over 2015, and Ryanair was also confirmed as the world’s fourth-biggest airline, having carried 117 million passengers in 2016. The biggest was US-based Southwest Airlines, with 151.8 million. The report shows that…
A Russian military jet has reportedly crashed in north-western Syria, killing the two crew members on board. Russian news agencies quote the defence ministry as saying the Sukhoi-24 attack plane veered off the runway as it was taking off for a combat mission. Reports suggest a technical fault may have been to blame. Neither of…
A pilot collapsed in the cockpit of a Thomson Boeing 737-800 (reg. G-TAWC) to Larnaca on Sunday. One passenger on the Thomson Holiday Flight 1714 saw the pilot “lying prostrate on the floor” after he keeled over just 16 minutes into the flight from Newcastle to Larnaca, Cyprus on Sunday. Panic and fear spread throughout…
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 had to return because landing gear could not retract. The Airbus A380 (reg. D-AIMM) #LH440 to Houston had to dump fuel before returning to Frankfurt after 1 hour flight. It landed safely at 11:40 local time. Via Breaking Flight News
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…
