More than 200 Jetstar passengers were stuck for seven hours after their flight was forced to make an emergency landing. A nine hour flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Melbourne turned into a lengthy nightmare for the passengers on board flight JQ30 on Saturday night. About half way through the flight, a passenger experienced a suspected…
New York’s Hometown Airline® Set to Further Expand at JFK, Adding Gates with Seamless Connection to Existing Home at Terminal 5. New York City-based JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU), joined by New York Governor Kathy Hochul and other partners and leaders, celebrated a key milestone in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s transformation of…
The National Transportation Safety Board announced Friday that it is investigating a Wednesday evening runway incursion at Bob Hope Burbank Airport. The NTSB investigating Feb. 22 runway incursion at Bob Hope Burbank Airport that occurred when a Skywest Embraer 175 was departing Runway 33 as a Mesa Airlines CRJ9 executed a pilot-initiated go-around as it…
A flying instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around and only realized after landing on the runway with the man slumped on his shoulder. According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the…
Boeing pauses delivery of 787 Dreamliners over fuselage issue. Boeing has temporarily halted deliveries of its 787 Dreamliners so it can do additional analysis on a fuselage component, the company and the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. “In reviewing certification records, Boeing discovered an analysis error by our supplier related to the 787 forward pressure…
An American Airlines plane suffered a lightning strike during flight. Aviation Maintenance shared a picture of the top fuselage of an American Airlines Dreamliner. The Boeing 787 experienced extensive damage to its composite fuselage crown when it was hit by lightning during flight. Summer is the season for thunderstorms, and sometimes lightning can strike an…
Air India Express flight made an emergency landing after experiencing a tail strike on takeoff. A full emergency was declared at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Friday after a Dammam-bound flight from Calicut was diverted to the state capital due to suspected hydraulic failure. The Boeing 737-800 landed at the airport at 12.15 PM, according to…
A pilot snapped a close-up pic of the infamous Chinese spy balloon before it was shot down. The photo was taken from the cockpit of the Lockheed U-2 he was flying on February 3 and shows the top of his helmet as the balloon floated below. The Pentagon released the image on Wednesday (February 22),…
A helicopter carrying Iranian Sports Minister Hamid Sajjad and his entourage crashed on Thursday while landing at a stadium in Baft, Kerman province of southeastern Iran. A helicopter carrying Iran’s sports minister Hamid Sajjadi and 11 others crashed in south-central Iran on Thursday, killing one person and causing Sajjadi to suffer from a brain bleed,…
Mriya lovers keep visiting the hangar at Kyiv Gostomel Airport where the wreckage of An-225 lies on the floor. An Ukrainian journalist visited Gostomel airport few days ago, sharing current visual of the remains of An-225 Mriya. Some parts will be saved but employees of DP Antonov will remove the wings in a few weeks.…
A Russian SU-25 fighter plane crashed on Thursday in Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine. Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a plane belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense crashed in the Valuysky municipality, not far from the country’s border with Ukraine. “An investigation team and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations…
Qantas has unveiled prototypes of the First and Business cabins on the aircraft that will fly passengers non-stop from Australia to New York and London from late 2025. Key to the cabin design has been giving passengers more space, made possible by Qantas’ decision to configure its 12 Airbus A350s to seat 238 passengers compared…