Freezing weather conditions are causing some delays and cancellations today. Snow is disrupting travel at Gatwick airport as up to 10cm is forecast to hit London and the South East tonight. UPDATE 2131UTC Broken clouds at a height of 100 ft at London Stansted. UPDATE 2125UTC London Stansted Airport is now closed. UPDATE Runway was reopened at…
The spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California. The parachute-assisted drop into the sea should occur at about 09:40 local time (17:40 GMT). The incoming velocity will be extremely high. The capsule will be moving at 40,000km/h (25,000mph) – or 32…
A Russian Su-25 fighter jet managed to safely land despite no landing gear on the aircraft. The moment was captured on mobile phone footage and quickly spread on social media Although the location of the military plane landing remains unclear, the Z-marking on the aircraft suggests a military role in the Ukraine war. In the…
Flight operations have been halted at Manchester. The snow vehicles are working to clear the runway. UPDATE Manchester Airport is preparing to reopen. Heavy ones #QR27 and #EK17 are about 30 mins from landing. UPDATE As Manchester is closed, Singapore Airlines #SQ51 is diverting to Paris CDG. UPDATE Per Eurocontrol, no landings at Manchester Airport…
A picture emerged of a Russian bomber damaged on the ground after possible Ukrainian drone’s strike. The image is showing damages to the rear of the Tu-22M3 (reg. RF-34110) bomber loaded with a Kh-22 missile. As the aircraft was loaded with a missile, it looks to have been damaged soon before takeoff for a mission.…
At Munich Airport, climate activists of the so-called “last generation” glued themselves onto the tarmac to protest against climate change. Climate activists from the group “Last Generation” stuck themselves on a runway at Munich Airport. One of the two runways had to be temporarily closed. Several activists from the “Last Generation” protest movement stuck themselves…
A dog was found in a suitcase during an x-ray check at Madison Airport. The image of the creature showed up on the scanner. Later it was discovered that a passenger had placed their dog inside of the bag so as to travel with him. A dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray at Madison…
Twenty-seven passengers fled a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport this morning after a woman pretended she was in labour so plane would make emergency landing. The drama occurred this morning after the A321 landed at 4.30am. As flight attendants helped the woman. who claimed her waters had broken, disembark, a group of 28 migrants…
Fighter jets were scrambled in response to Copenhagen Airport bomb threat. Denmark’s military scrambled two fighter aircraft on Monday after Copenhagen Airport received a bomb threat. The military sent two F-16s into the air in connection with a threat to a LOT aircraft that was approaching Copenhagen Airport. The two F-16s remained at Copenhagen Airport…
The last ever built Boeing 747 has rolled out from the Everett factory in Washington state. This Boeing 747-8F will be the last produced by Boeing, 54 years after the first, at same plant, same building. The 1,574th — and last — 747 will later be flown by a Boeing test pilot, painted and handed…
A Cape Town to Munich flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday after one of engines reportedly stalled mid-air. A Lufthansa flight LH-575, an Airbus A350-900 with registration D-AIXE travelling from CapeTown, South Africa issued a mayday call after one of the aircraft’s left engine failed. The aircraft was carrying 286 passengers…
An EasyJet flight heading to the UK from Poland has been diverted to the Czech Republic after a report of a ‘possible bomb’ on board. Flight EZY6276 from Krakow to Bristol was an hour into its two-and-a-half-hour flight when it landed at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport at 10.50pm on Sunday. Prague Airport tweeted: ‘There was…