A fire on board a JetBlue Airways plane forced more than 160 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides at New York JFK Airport on Saturday. Emergency responders swarmed and evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport due to a smoking laptop, according to officials. “On Saturday, JetBlue flight 662 with service from Bridgetown, Barbados…
A decision is yet to be made about how exactly the three crew members will be brought back to Earth. Russia’s space agency says it is considering sending an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home three crew members ahead of schedule, after their Soyuz capsule started leaking. The leak started…
A powerful Arctic winter storm has placed more than 135 million people under weekend weather alerts. Airlines canceled more than 2,400 US flights by 9 p.m. ET Thursday and proactively canceled more than 2,200 flights for Friday, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Even for Saturday, more than 125 flights were already canceled. Delays…
Two U.S. citizens were arrested for allegedly conspiring with Russian hackers to hack the JFK Airport taxi dispatch system to move specific taxis to the front of the queue in exchange for a $10 fee. The taxi dispatch system is a computer-controlled system that ensures that taxis are dispatched from the airport’s holding lot to…
Ukrainian President Zelensky has landed back in Poland on board a Boeing C-40B. After his visit to Washington to meet President Biden and address Congress, the Ukrainian President Zelensky has landed back Rzeszow Jasionka Airport, Poland. The Boeing C-40B taking Zelensky back home has landed at 11.30UTC. The traffic has been halted due to security…
Reports suggest the Russian President is fearing a potential strike from Ukraine so he devised an elaborate plan to keep the official travel itinerary secret. Few days ago, this was the first state visit organised by Putin to his ally Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, in three years. Putin was accompanied by a large…
The body of an African man has been found in undercarriage of a plane. The TUI flight #TOM225 had travelled from The Gambia’s capital Banjul to London Gatwick Airport. Sussex Police said the discovery was made at the airport at about 04:00 GMT on 7 December. A Gatwick Airport spokesperson said: “This is terribly sad…
Italy’s Vega rockets have been grounded and an investigation is under way after the latest model failed on its second mission, destroying two Earth-imaging satellites and further complicating Europe’s access to space on top of the war in Ukraine. Launch firm Arianespace said on Wednesday a “serious anomaly” occurred two minutes and 27 seconds after…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday plans to appear in Washington to meet with President Biden and visit Capitol Hill, first public international appearance since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. President Zelensky apparently tweeted before taking off from Poland. An US Air Force Boeing C-40B has departed Rzeszow, Poland, at the border of Ukraine and…
Turkish Air Force A400Ms have taken off from Chernivtsi Airport, South of Ukraine. A rare situation during the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Due to the closure of the airspace in Ukraine, 2 Turkish A400M aircraft remained stuck at Borispol Airport since the beginning of the war. The two Turkish A400M military cargo aircraft…
The Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire earlier this month. None of the strategic aircraft will perform flyovers at this years’ college bowl games. A bomber experienced an in-flight malfunction on Dec. 10, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Whiteman Air Force…
The world cup semi finalists are heading to Morocco after football’s world cup. Morocco football team has left Doha Hamad International Airport this morning. The Royal Air Maroc Boeing 787-9 (reg. CN-RGZ) took off at 11:30 (local time). The team is expected to land at Rabat airport around 17.00 local time.