Two Utah National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were involved in a training accident Tuesday morning, crashing near a popular ski resort, the Utah National Guard said. No crew members or skiers at the Snowbird ski resort were injured, according to Jared Jones, chief warrant officer 5 with the Utah National Guard. The accident occurred…
French Navy group monitored Russian jets in Eastern Mediterranean. French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in Eastern Mediterranean monitored Russian fighter jets taking off from Latakia, Syria. In the photos published by French Defense Staff can be identified as a Tupolev Tu-22M and two Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets. Another flight group was composed of a…
Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, to collaborate on a hydrogen demonstration programme that will take flight around the middle of this decade. The programme’s objective is to ground and flight test a direct combustion engine fueled by hydrogen, in preparation for…
The Ukrainian Armed Forces has deployed air defence units near Airports East of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces has deployed air defence units near the Kiev, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy, Eduard Basurin, International Airports, the spokesman for the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Tuesday. “Our intelligence has recorded the movement of columns…
airBaltic has temporarily suspend overnight flights to and from Ukraine. As the geopolitical situation in the country deteriorates, the decision will remain in place until at least the end of February. As a result of the suspension, the airline has cancelled five overnight rotations between Kyiv and Riga as well as two rotations between Odessa…
NATO fighter jets were scrambled 2 times over East Europe on 18 February. Belgian F-16s on NATO Air Policing intercepted 2 Russian Su-27s and an IL-22 COOT flying near Allied airspace in the Baltics. On the same day Polish F-16s intercepted a Russian TU-134 CRUSTY, escorted by 2x MiG-31s and 2x Su-27 Flankers that had…
CCTV camera video released by Florida authorities this week shows the confrontations that an intoxicated New Jersey woman on a motorized suitcase got into with police and airline employees before she was arrested at the Orlando International Airport last year. The incident happened in April 2021 when the woman, identified by police as 32-year-old Chelsea…
Air France cancels at least next flight to Kyiv. Air France has decided to cancel its Tuesday flights between Paris and Kyiv, the French airline said, as a “precautionary measure” on the back of rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. “In view of the local situation and as a precautionary measure, flights AF1752 and AF1753…
A mysterious object floating over Hawaii prompted the U.S. military to scramble fighter jets to investigate, authorities reported. The object seen over Kauai on Monday, Feb. 14, appeared to be an unmanned balloon with no identification markings, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, Hawaii’s adjutant general, said in a series of Twitter posts. Local officials and onlookers…
Three people have been killed after an army warplane crashed in an urban area in Iran’s Tabriz. Two pilots and a civilian sitting in a parked vehicle were killed in the incident. Local army official Reza Yousefi told state media at the site of the crash that the aircraft was an F5 model used for…
While we can’t say the pandemic is technically over, there are some signs that life is returning back to “pre-pandemic” levels. On Friday afternoon, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport released its 2021 traffic report which showed a massive increase in travelers heading in and out of the “World’s Busiest Airport”. The report said that over 75 million…
Storm Eunice at Amsterdam airport Schiphol! This video including some shots taken during storm Eunice. The worst storm we’ve had in many years. This video includes some footage of planes going around and landing on runway 18R in the early afternoon, when the storm wasn’t on its peak.