Supporters of Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the Supreme Court, the Congress building and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia. Images on social media show what looks like thousands of people, many draped in the yellow and green of the Brazil flag, streaming up the steps of the National Congress building…
On November 5, 2022, a company organized a selection process to be part of the cabin crew of an airline. The recruitment company Meccti advertised jobs for Kuwait Airways. The process took place in a room at the Meliá Barajas hotel, very close to the Madrid airport. In a publication, Meccti announced the recruitment process…
The bodies of two young men, who were possibly from the Dominican Republic, were found in the undercarriage of an Avianca airplane during maintenance in Colombian capital Bogota. “At its arrival to the El Dorado airport in Bogota, personnel from the airline discovered the bodies of two people who flew irregularly (stowaways) in the undercarriage…
A Jetstar A320 made an emergency landing at Chubu Airport near Nagoya following a bomb threat. Jetstar Japan Airbus A320 (reg. JA14JJ) operating flight #GK501 from Tokyxo NRT to Fukuoka, safely diverted to Nagoya Chubu Centrair Airport, Japan following a bomb thread. The plane, which was carrying 136 passengers and six crew members, took off…
Mexican airline Aeromexico said the fuselage of a plane scheduled to fly from Culiacan, Sinaloa to Mexico City was hit by gunfire Thursday morning. The Aeromexico Connect E-190 (reg. XA-ALW) performing flight #AM165 came under gunfire while in its take-off run at Culiacan Airport, Mexico. Bullets penetrated the aircraft. At the time an armed standoff…
The airline has been putting the uniform to the test over the last six months in secret trials. British Airways has today unveiled a new uniform to take the airline into its next chapter. The collection of garments, created by British fashion designer and tailor Ozwald Boateng OBE, will be worn by more than 30,000…
Air India airlines on Wednesday banned for 30 days the man who allegedly peed at an elderly woman travelling in business class and exposed his private parts to her on a flight from New York to Delhi in November 2022. The airlines, in an official statement, said that they have taken very serious note of…
A plane coming into Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from Mexico slid off the taxiway Tuesday evening, airport officials confirmed. According to MSP Airport, Delta Flight 1819, an Airbus A320, was taxiing into the airport from Cabo San Lucas around 6:40 p.m. when the nose gear when off the pavement. The nose gear went about 30…
Air France AF72 to Los Angeles is declaring an emergency. The Boeing 777-300ER (reg. F-GSQL) has declared an emergency over London. The flight was scheduled to land in Los Angeles LAX at 16.05. UPDATE Air France #AF72 returned to Paris due to a technical problem (engine oil system). UPDATE AF72 has landed safely runway 27L…
An IndiGo flight suffered a tailstrike on landing at Kolkata Airport, India. The plane was performing flight flight #6E1859 between Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India. The Airbus A321neo (reg. VT-ILR experienced extensive tailstrike on landing. IndiGo confirmed the incident occurred during landing at Kolkata. The aircraft was grounded at Kolkata for assessment and repair. The…
A passenger has died on KLM flight from Suriname to the Netherlands on Tuesday, January 3. The KLM flight #KL714 departed from Paramaribo to Amsterdam Schiphol. During the flight, over the Atlantic, a passenger travelling to the Netherlands for medical treatment has died. He was the medical director of the Suriname Psychiatric Center, and was…
NASA and Roscosmos are working out how to get two cosmonauts and an astronaut back home after their spacecraft sprung a leak. Three residents of the International Space Station are facing an uncertain future after a Russian Soyuz capsule sprung a dramatic coolant leak last month that has left the craft’s spaceworthiness in doubt. NASA…