Gatwick has reopened its south terminal as the recovery from Covid-19 continues and Manchester airport is set to reopen its second runway. The airport has gone from offering 300 flights a day on Saturday to more than 500 today. Gatwick and its partners – including airlines, shops, cafes and bars – have spent months refurbishing,…
Dubai International Airport is preparing for an extensive runway closure next month. From April 9 until June 22, the Northern runway will be out of service for refurbishment. It will definitely have an impact on the operations of its major users, Emirates and flydubai, but by how much? DXB runway closure will hurt Emirates –…
The second “black box” has been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed all 132 people on board last week, Chinese state media said Sunday. Firefighters taking part in the search found the recorder, an orange cylinder, on a mountain slope about 1.5 meters (5 feet) underground, state broadcaster CCTV…
A Belgian-British teenage pilot hopes to join his sister in the record books after starting his attempt to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small plane on Wednesday. With his parents looking on, 16-year-old Mack Rutherford took off from an airstrip west of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in windy but…
New pictures from Russian forces at Gostomel Airport show the world’s biggest airplane destroyed beyond repair. The new pictures show the nosecone full of bullet holes as Gostomel airport has been the place of 3 battles. A video released from Russian MOD shows the Antonov An-225 intact in her hangar during the first assault by…
The airplane carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in eastern Poland has made an emergency landing after returning to Warsaw. A Boeing 737-800 BBJ2 carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda was turned back on route to Rzeszow and made an emergency landing in Warsaw. Duda later boarded a different aircraft and…
Following the destruction of the world’s biggest aircraft, the Antonov company appeals for funds for the revival of the An-225. Yesterday, Antonov company posted on Facebook to remind the people that the An-225 plane is the largest by mass cargo transportation and unbeatable by its parameters. During 34 years of operation on all continents, the…
Search area to be expanded in hilly and forested crash site, where constant rain and landslide fears are making recovery efforts more difficult More than 10km (6.2 miles) from where China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed, a farmer has found what he suspects to be a piece of aircraft debris, indicating the vast expanse of…
Russian forces are watching military activities at the Western Ukrainian Airport. As the runway 10 threshold is only 133 meters from Slovak border, the Uzhhorod airport is a very sensitive area. Slovakia’s Defence Minister has confirmed he’s received intelligence warning of possible attack on Ukraine’s Uzhhorod airport “in the near future”. The airfield literally touches…
Authorities have yet to declare the number of victims, but there has been no sign so far that any of the 132 people onboard had survived. Investigators still do not know why the plane suddenly entered a near-vertical dive in southern China on Monday. But the recovery of the intact cockpit voice recorder is hoped…
Very recent plane moves occurred at Kyiv Boryspil International Airport. Satellite pictures show some serious airplane rearrangement occurred at Kyiv International Airport. Between March 21 and March 23.03, planes were removed from the gates but also from the main parking. Several planes were regrouped South of the airport, on a parking between the runways.
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile which flew for “71 minutes” for a distance of 1100 KM’s North Korea fired what is thought to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the sea off its east coast on Thursday, militaries in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first full-capability launch…