Boeing 737-800 have been grounded after China Eastern Flight 5735 crash. More than 200 of China Eastern’s Boeing 737-800 planes have been grounded for two weeks now because there was no obvious reason why the jet entered a sudden nosedive, killing all 132 people on board. Any evidence that clears or implicates Boeing could be…
Chinese and U.S. safety investigators have stepped up cooperation in their effort to determine what caused a Boeing 737 flown by China Eastern Airlines to crash last month, killing all 132 people on board. The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder, discovered at the mountainous crash site in the Guangxi province, has been transferred to a National…
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what went wrong when the cockpit windshield of a Delta plane shattered mid-air during a flight on Thursday to Washington, D.C., from Salt Lake City, Utah. The Boeing 757 made a safe emergency landing in Denver at around 11:35 a.m. on Thursday “after the crew declared an emergency due…
U.S. airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights Sunday as they tried to dig out of problems caused by severe thunderstorms in Florida and other disruptions that hit during the peak spring travel season. Southwest canceled 400 flights Sunday, or 10 percent of its total, down from approximately 600 scuttled flights as of late Saturday, according…
EasyJet has cancelled around 100 flights on Monday, including 62 from the UK, blaming higher than usual levels of staff absence due to Covid. It said it had been trying to tackle the problem by using standby crew, but added that it had “also decided to make some cancellations in advance”. It comes amid rising…
Russia has announced it will end co-operation on the International Space station until Western-led sanctions over its Ukraine invasion are lifted. The head of the country’s space agency said it will no longer work with its partners, including NASA and the European Space Agency, on the groundbreaking orbiting laboratory. The chief of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin,…
Failure of both the engines forced a US Navy E-2D Hawkeye reconnaissance aircraft crash into the water near Stockton, Virginia (near Wildcat Marsh) on 31st March. U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft assigned to Airborne Command & Control Squadron 120, or VAW-120, crashed in Eastern Shore waters near the Virginia-Maryland…
The An-225 was not the only aircraft victim at Gostomel Airport. Dmitry Antonov is the chief pilot of Antonov Airlines was able to reach Gostomel Airport. He was able to see for himself, Friday, April 1, 2022, the damage suffered by the An-225 “Mriya” during the fighting at Hostomel airport, north of Kiev, Ukraine. He…
The An-225 was not the only aircraft victim at Gostomel Airport. Besides the An-225 Mriya, the An-124 (reg. UR-82009) was also damaged in the battles of Gostomel Airport. Russian Forces have abandoned Gostomel (Antonov) Airport in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
A pilot has been jailed after lying to land a job with British Airways. Craig Butfoy made false claims to get and retain work with BA’s subsidiary BA CityFlyer and former Irish regional airline Stobart Air, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said. The 49-year-old entered false details and altered entries in his flight logbook so…
Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, an incident the Kremlin said set an unfavourable tone for peace talks with Kyiv. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said he could not confirm or deny reports of Ukrainian involvement in the strike as…
A new drone footage of Gostomel (Antonov) Airport has been released. Russian Forces have abandoned Gostomel (Antonov) Airport in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The video shows the destroyed biggest aircraft in the world.