Airbus has commenced the final assembly of its first A330neo, an A330-900, at its Final Assembly Line in Toulouse with the joining of the wings to the centre fuselage at station 40. As the newest member of the world’s most popular A330 wide-body family the A330neo builds on the Family’s proven economics, versatility and reliability,…
An Asiana Airlines flight to Seoul returned to Los Angeles on Tuesday after smoke was reported in the cargo hold. According to Flightaware.com the A380 plane with 358 passengers on board returned to Los Angeles 7 hours after its departure at 12:53 p.m. Tuesday (local time). Asiana said aviation officials there didn’t find any signs…
In the cockpit of the Boeing 777 departing Liege for Dubai & Hong Kong for a low visibility takeoff…
Report of power outage at domestic terminal of Male Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (Maldives). Mivaguthu #INIA #Blackout pic.twitter.com/CB9WvXcsRH — Saudullah Ahmed (@DidiSaud) September 27, 2016
In the cockpit of the SAS Scandinavian Airbus A340-300 for a departure out of Washington Dulles Airport bound for Copenhagen, Copilot at the controls.
On sunday, Air France flight #AF852 to Cayenne suffered a compressor stall on takeoff from Paris ORY, probably due to a bird strike. The Boeing 777-200 started to dump fuel holding 6,000 feet, south of Paris during about 25 minutes. Air France decided to divert flight #AF852 to Paris CDG for a better technical care. The plane…
Monarch Airlines has strongly denied rumours it is in financial trouble amid growing fears among passengers. Travellers and aviation enthusiasts began tweeting and posting speculation to Facebook on Sunday. Their fears were fuelled by US carrier United Airlines appearing to launch services on the same routes at the same times as scheduled Monarch flights. Monarch…
A BAe Jetstream 41 was damaged in a runway excursion on landing at Bhairawa Airport (Nepal). The aircraft operated flight YT893 from . On landing at Bhairawa the flight fromKathmandu failed to stop and overran the runway. There were 29 passengers and three crew members aboard the plane are safe, according to the Yeti Airlines.
The United States 5th Bomb Wing B-52s and their crews recently performed a mass takeoff during Prairie Vigilance exercise at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Prairie Vigilance is an annual exercise designed to test the wing’s ability to conduct conventional and nuclear-capable bomber operations.
