The Israeli Air Force intercepted what it believes to be an Iranian-built drone, sent by the Hezbollah terrorist organization, that attempted to cross into Israeli airspace on Tuesday, the army said. UPDATE The Iranian built reconnaissance drone took off from the Damascus airport. The military said it intercepted the incoming unmanned aerial vehicle, but was still…
Footage of an incident leaked online on Tuesday shows accidental rocket fire from a Russian strike helicopter hitting close to parked cars. The incident came to light on Tuesday after footage of the misfire was published online. The Russian military declined to disclose when and where it happened, but denied reports that it was during…
After dark on September 16, Salt Lake City residents observed a number of strange lights in the sky. Several videos snapped by stunned witnesses show the lights zooming through the night sky. The unusual behavior of the strange light formation prompted speculation they could be shooting stars or even extraterrestrial objects. According to local media…
Ryanair shares fell 3 percent in early Monday trading following its announcement late on Friday of plans to cancel between 40 and 50 flights a day until the end of October. The company says it is trying to deal with a backlog of staff leave which must be allocated before the end of the year.…
A Royal Wings Boeing 737-300, on behalf of Royal Jordanian, performing flight from Amman to Aqaba (Jordan) with 126 people on board, landed at Aqaba but went off the paved surface of the runway and came to a stop of soft ground. There were no injuries, the aircraft sustained minor damage. The passengers disembarked onto…
A powerful typhoon ripped into southern Japan on Sunday , dumping torrential rain, grounding hundreds of domestic flights and halting train services. Typhoon Talim made a landfall in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 km/h, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. At least 644 domestic flights have been…
Pic: Scott Grayson/Twitter Passengers felt a jolt in their seats and looked from their windows to see a wing of their Aurigny flight GR673 to Guernsey had gone into the side of a catering truck moments after pushing back from Terminal 1 at around 9.50am. None of around 60 passengers or crew on board the…
JustPlanes filmed CONDOR in the cockpit of the Boeing 757-300 on a roundtrip from Frankfurt to the island of Madeira. Discover the complex approach into this airport. In this video you see some clips from the takeoff. Find the full 260min film at http://www.worldairroutes.com/condor753.html
The evacuation was called at around 8am at one of France’s busiest airport – Charles de Gaulle. British Airways passengers of an Airbus A320 (reg. G-EUYC) were flanked by armed officers and searched by sniffer dogs after a “direct security threat” sparked the sudden evacuation of a London-bound plane. UPDATE Following additional security checks British Airways #BA303…
An Air India aircraft hit a parked ground cooling unit (GCU) truck just after landing on the runway at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident took place around 9.41pm on Friday. The GCU is ground support equipment, which supplies cold air or hot air into a parked aircraft to maintain comfortable temperatures. Officials confirmed…
Ryanair is to cancel 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, in a bid to improve punctuality of flights. The budget Irish-based airline announced the plan on Friday, saying that it was “unacceptable” that its punctuality had fallen below 80% in the first half of this month. It also said it…
