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…
I have filmed a few thousand crosswind landings at several airports in Europe within the past years, but this Airbus A380 crosswind landing was extremly dangerous and extraordinary. At first it looked like a pretty normal crosswind approach but after touchdown the pilots tried to align with the runway which almost ended in a runway…
Belgium has said it intends to take Ryanair to court, accusing it of illegally punishing customers hit by thousands of flight cancellations. Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Kris Peeters, who handles the consumer affairs portfolio, said in a statement that the airline has “shown a lack of professionalism”. Mr Peeters accused Ryanair of a series of failings,…
JustPlanes spent 7 days filming Paris CDG Airport to capture all the traffic and most specifically all the new airlines, aircraft and special colors visiting the airport. Some of the hot ones include VIETNAM AIRLINES A350, TAM A350, QATAR A350, CATHAY A350, new C Series of AIR BALTIC and SWISS, many A380s, special color schemes…
On 30 September, the cockpit of an Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 737-800 was flooded after somebody left the right cockpit window open during a heavy thunderstorm at Buenos Aires airport. The airline was forced to cancel several flights as the Boeing 737 needed to dry, the aircraft was released again on 2 October to San Carlos…
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the UN in New York to announced a commitment by the carrier to order 40 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners in what was seen as a reaction to tension between Turkey and the EU. The agreement stops short of an actual order and the number of aircraft quoted indicates the details…
A plane crashed into a pair of deer while trying to land on the runway in northern Alberta on Tuesday. Police said the two deer jumped in front of the aircraft and hit the propeller. It happened at the MEG Energy Christina Lake Aerodrome, east of Conklin, Alta. The Dash 8, was owned by Sunwest…
Emirates will be the first airline to receive Boeing’s all-new 777X aircraft, when it gets rolled out in 2020, a senior Boeing executive confirmed, putting an end to the debate on which of its seven customers were going to launch the US planemaker’s flagship aircraft. Emirates will receive its first 777X aircraft in mid-2020, racing…