Frontier Group Holdings agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $2.9 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create a discount airline juggernaut. Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, the two largest low-cost carriers in the U.S. have agreed to merge, creating what would become the fifth-largest airline in the country. The boards of…
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving in Atlanta Sunday suffered a flight tire upon landing, officials confirmed. Delta Flight 1277, an Airbus A321 (reg. N129DN), was flying from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. According to officials, the plane blew out a tire on its right main gear during a landing around 3:40 p.m on runway 09R.…
A plane carrying US troops landed in Poland on Sunday (Feb 6), a Reuters witness said, as Washington reinforces its NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine’s border. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania, as Washington moves to reassure jittery NATO…
A new video emerged online on Sunday purporting to show the American F-35C fighter jet crash-landing and skidding off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the open sea somewhere south of China. The incident occurred on January 24, when a US Navy F-35C crashed while landing on the USS Carl Vinson…
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…