Several aircraft were infested with insects in the UK last year, according to a report that has just emerged. Eight planes could not take off from London’s Heathrow airport last July due to wasp and bee nests blocking crucial ‘pitot probes’. Pitots are studded tubes which are used to measure airplane speed. Seven of the…
A Boeing 737 made a hard landing at Las Vegas Airport early Friday morning. Around 1:15 a.m. Feb. 4, Sun Country flight #110 took off from Las Vegas and was scheduled to fly to Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). Reid airport officials and Sun Country media relations said there was a landing gear malfunction and…
A military plane suffered a right hand engine issue mid air. A plane coming back from delivering supplies to the state’s flood-impacted regions has had to make an emergency landing after an engine blew. 11 people were on board the aircraft which landed at Edinburgh Airport, Australia.
A U.S. special forces counter-terrorism to conduct a raid in northwest Syria on Thursday targeted the leader of ISIS. U.S. Special Operations forces successfully carried out a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said, adding there were no U.S. casualties but gave no further details. Residents of the northwest Syrian town of…
Croatia continues to increase its military capacity, after acquiring the 12 Rafale jets from France in November, now takes delivery of two Black Hawk helicopters. Two UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters arrived in Croatia today. Both helicopters have been delivered to Zagreb’s Franjo Tuđman airport via a US military C-17 for strategic transport. It is a…
Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35s scrambled from Evenes airbase in Northern Norway to identify Russian aircraft operating in the High North, February 2. The Norwegian Control and Response Center at Sørreisa ordered the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) scramble after multiple Russian aircraft were detected flying out of the Kola Peninsula. The F-35s launched over the…
Kenya Airways has decided to stop shipping research primates to the United States. A truck hauling 100 monkeys from Mauritius crashed in Pennsylvania, one woman who got close to the scattered crates of monkeys on the highway has been treated for possible symptoms of illness. Kenya Airways, which have transported the monkeys to the United…
US President Joe Biden has ordered the deployment of thousands of troops to Eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate over Moscow’s potential invasions of Ukraine, American officials said Wednesday. The number of troops to be deployed stands at around 3,000, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials. “They are trained and equipped for…
A Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission is currently in progress. RAF Typhoon jets have been scrambled to intercept Russian aircraft, North of UK. A RAF tanker has also been scrambled from RAF Brize Norton. A source says at least 3 bombers in the air with the support of 3 tankers. An RAF Spokesperson confirmed: “Quick…
Musk offered teen $5,000 to shut down his flight tracker bot on Twitter. A 19-year-old Jack Sweeney won a bit of internet fame when Protocol published a story about one of his Twitter bots. The college student maintains ElonJet, a tracker that tweets out when Elon Musk’s private jet takes off and lands. Last fall,…
About 300 cats and dogs abandoned during the evacuation from Afghanistan five months ago are now on their way to Vancouver aboard an Il-76 chartered by the charity Kabul Small Animal Rescue (KSAR). Five months after the end of evacuations from Kabul airport at the end of August, abandoned cats and dogs left Afghanistan on…
Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue – a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives. The testimony demonstrates how worker abuse extends even to the Gulf nation’s high-skill industries, as Qatar Airwaystries to minimise crew downtime. “I fell asleep during…