The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization, the 240 series was able to make some inroads as a commercial airliner and also had a long development cycle which resulted in…
You will likely not see many wide body aircraft flying at 1000 feet for more than 10 minutes but JustPlanes captured this amazing flight! In 2001 JustPlanes was lucky enough to film 4 flights across the Atlantic on the YES AIR Lockheed 1011 Tristar between Lisbon and the Caribbean as well as Lisbon to Brazil.…
Two RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to monitor a pair of Russian military planes flying towards UK airspace. The fighter jets took off from the Lossiemouth base in Scotland on Wednesday. The Typhoons were sent to monitor two Russian aircraft which were heading towards a UK “area of interest”. Once the RAF jets were airborne,…
An unclaimed mobile phone found in the aircraft cabin of Jet Airways’ Delhi-Bangkok flight on Wednesday created a major scare. The crew of this flight #9W66, sent a distress message to Bangkok by “squawking” code “7700” after entering Thai airspace as this phone was suspected to be a bomb, said highly placed sources. Confirming this,…
Qantas has ferried extra fuel from Sydney to Auckland on a Boeing 747-400 as part of efforts to minimise disruption due to fuel shortages at the airport. Airlines have been battling restricted fuel supplies at Auckland Airport since Sunday, after a pipeline which connects a refinery to the Wiri Oil Services facility near the airport was damaged,…
Pilots working for the travel group Thomas Cook will stage a strike on Saturday as part of a dispute over pay. Their trade union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), confirmed the strike after five days of talks failed to resolve the dispute. A strike on 8 September was the first by pilots at the…
JustPlanes has filmed half a dozen Los Angeles Airport programs in the past 25 years. In this edition we capture this very neat landing/takeoff sequence by 2 Delta Classic aircraft! For the full 3 hour film featuring 300 takeoffs & landings visit http://www.justplanes.com/us51.html
UPDATE Mexico City airport resuming operations from 16:00 local time. UPDATE Mexico City airport has suspended operations until infrastructure is completely inspected. Mexico City airport is being evacuated. Operations stopped at Mexico City Airport after 7.1 earthquake, all flights on hold or diverting.
A SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway on landing and got stuck in mud at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Tuesday evening. All 183 passengers on the SpiceJet flight are said to be safe. The airline and airport authorities immediately carried out an emergency evacuation following the mishap. According to the initial reports, emergency chutes were deployed…
In a major scare at Mangalore airport on Tuesday, a Dubai-bound passenger’s power bank was found to have a suspicious clay-like object in his check-in baggage. The flight is question was an Indigo Airlines aircraft plying directly from Mangaluru to Dubai. “IndiGo’s alert security screener staff at Mangalore caught a suspect carrying alleged cellphone bomb…
From March 24 2018 customers will be able to fly direct from Heathrow Terminal 5 to the Seychelles, making British Airways the only airline offering a non-stop service from the UK. Scattered across the Indian Ocean and famed as some of the most idyllic islands on the planet, flights will take to the skies twice-a-week…
