Two pilots have been arrested for allegedly attempting to fly a Airbus A310 from Glasgow Airport to Toronto while under the influence of alcohol. The captain and first officer are due to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday following the incident on the Air Transat aircraft on Monday afternoon. A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Police…
A large piece of aircraft debris, believed to be a wing flap, has arrived in Australia for testing as part of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, officials said Monday. The piece, found by locals on Pemba Island just off the coast of Tanzania on June 23, was now in Canberra, the Australian Transport…
About 90 minutes late on Iberia flight 8415 Sunday, July 17 because of a technical problem. A CRJ9 flight operated by Air Nostrum (Iberia Group) to Vigo (Spain) scheduled for departure at 15.10 from Fiumicino Airport, took off after 16:30 due to a “technical problem”. No one knew how to push the aircraft on the runway.…
Japan’s ANA is adding a fourth Star Wars-themed aircraft to its fleet, with a Boeing 777-200 in C-3PO livery set to take to the skies from March 2017. The airline, which launched the C-3PO 777-200 at a Star Wars Celebration Europe event in London, said the aircraft would be flown on domestic Japanese routes.
Last week, passengers on an Edinburgh flight were left drenched when a man urinated on some of them as they waited to get off a flight. The 26-year-old alleged urinator was on board a flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh and tried to leave the aircraft just after it landed. Flight attendants asked the unnamed man to…
Emergency runway closure immediately due to soft spot in main Runway 06/24 to avoid damage to aircraft. Closure is upon risk assessment made by airport authorities. Expected flight diversions until on or about 10 p.m. today. Flights using aircraft A320 and below may use Runway 13/31 for flight operations. The broken runway coating damaged flaps…
A Hawaiian Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Tokyo early on Monday morning, bursting tyres and forcing the closure of one runway and the cancellation of several other flights. Flight HA458, which departed from Tokyo’s Haneda airport around midnight for Honolulu, returned to Japan after hydraulic system alarm, according to the NHK. The Airbus…
