A Beijing Airport passenger accidentally deployed the emergency chute to her airliner pulling the lever to its emergency exit – right after she was told not to touch it. A Xiamen Airlines flight had been preparing to leave Beijing Capital International Airport Monday morning. A Weibo user said airline staff had just completed the safety announcement in which…
70 minutes into high altitude balloon (weather balloon) flight, OLHZN-5, we inadvertently experienced an extremely close flyby over Newark, NY (**not New Jersey**) from an Airbus A319 operated by Delta Air Lines (Flight #159) which was en-route from Boston, MA to Detroit, MI and flying just over our payload at 38,000 FT. This is the…
South Korean officials said they found a North Korean sent to photograph America’s controversial THAAD missile defense system that was recently deployed to the region. The drone is equipped with a Sony built-in camera and reportedly contained hundreds of pictures, including precisely ten photos of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, also known as…
AirHelp’s ranking of 86 airlines is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and takes into account a number of metrics in three key areas to come up with an overall AirHelp Score. This includes: Quality and Service: AirHelp factors in details from Skytraxresearch.com to help determine an airline’s quality both on and off…
On Monday 12th June 2017, Qatar A350 inaugural Doha-Dublin-Doha flights numbers QR17/QR18.
Hundreds of passengers have waited in queues for several hours at Manchester Airport because of a “technical failure” with the check-in system. UPDATE 0914 UTC Manchester airport system had an upgrade overnight which caused the failure this morning. A total of 12 Thomas Cook flights were affected after staff have had to switch to a manual…
Up to 40 passengers have been forced off a Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth over concerns the plane was too heavy to fly. Passengers aboard the Boeing 737-800 flight due to arrive in Perth at 7.40pm told Radio 6PR yesterday they were asked to disembark the plane prior to take off, WA Today reports. A…
Two B-1B and a B-52 were intercepted over the Baltic Sea on June 9. A Russian Su-27 Flanker approached to around 100ft of the B-1B, which is temporarily deployed to RAF Fairford during during Baltic exercise. The USAF is supporting the exercise with around 600 airmen and eight Air Forces Global Strike Command bombers deployed to Fairford. The…
A Spitfire crashed on takeoff during airshow at aerodrome of Trois-frontières, Longuyon-Vilette few meters from the public. The propeller has hit the ground during takeoff, then the WWII plane moved upside down and stopped on its back. Propeller splints spread among the crowd and obviously at least one young woman has been injured. The firemen quickly arrived…
JustPlanes spent a week filming Sydney Airport and captured a lot of Qantas Boeing 747 movements. For the full 4hr film visit http://www.justplanes.com/sydney.html
China Eastern flight #MU736 to Shanghai returned to Sydney today after engine suffered serious damage. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) was climbing to 5,000ft at 10:30 UTC when the engine #1 suffered cowling damage. The failure was not inclusive and the debris badly damaged the engine cowling. The Airbus A330-200 (reg. B-6099) landed safely at Sydney…
