Air Baltic Airbus A220 slid off runway 36 on landing at Riga- Airport. The Latvian airline airBaltic confirmed that on December 3, 2021 during a heavy snowfall, the flight #BT102slid off the runway during the landing at Riga Airport. The Airbus A220-300 (reg. YL-CSE) performed the flight from Stockholm to Riga performed with YL-CSE aircraft…
United States president, Joe Biden, has announced the country will tighten entry requirements in response to growing concerns over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. From Monday, passengers flying to the US will need to show a negative Covid-19 test performed within one day of departure. The country earlier recorded its first official Omicron case,…
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to buy 80 French-made Rafale fighter jets, the biggest international order ever made for the warplanes, officials said on Friday during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron. The UAE, one of the French defence industry’s biggest customers, also agreed to buy 12 Caracal military transport helicopters, the French…
A woman attacked two flight attendants on a Spirit Airlines flight to Nashville on Saturday night, was restrained by a fellow passenger. Airport police arrested a 42-year old female for public intoxication after the flight crew contacted officers on the ground at Nashville International Airport around 7 p.m., an arrest affidavit said. The flight took…
Multiple fights broke out between passengers at Minneapolis airport after a flight landed on Friday 26 November. The incident occurred just before midnight, after a Frontier Airlines service touched down. The violent outburst, which took place at the airport’s terminal 2, was caught on camera and shared on social media. One video uploaded to Facebook…
London’s Heathrow airport has reopened its Terminal 4 as a separate arrivals facility for countries on the government’s Covid “red list” as of Wednesday. Travelers arriving from red-list countries will be kept away from passengers in all other operational terminals, it said in a press release.In additional response to the risk posed by the Omicron…
An Aeroflot flight headed from the Russian city of St. Petersburg to Uzbekistan’s Namangan made a landing in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, because of a baby born onboard, a regional emergency source told TASS. “The aircraft captain reported a woman in labor onboard the flight and a decision was made that the plane would head to…
A Malaysian Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Wednesday night due to a bomb threat, according to an official source. “Over suspicion of a bomb on board, the plane landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for emergency and we have been able to instantly evict…
Japan said Wednesday that it has asked airlines to suspend new bookings for flights entering the country through the end of the year, effectively sealing its borders for everyone, including Japanese citizens, unless they have a pre-existing reservation. The move, a response to the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, marks the first time during…
A Twitter user sourced the video from a Royal Navy WhatsApp group and claimed that the original footage is from the ship’s visual surveillance system. A new video posted to Twitter purports to show the F-35 British fighter jet crashing into the water during takeoff as its pilot ejects. The jet, which was docked on…
President Joe Biden urged Americans not to panic Monday as scientists and public health officials assess the threat of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, asking Americans to redouble their commitment to measures that could halt the spread of virus Biden’s Monday afternoon update on Omnicron represented the administration’s latest attempt to assure Americans that they…
A couple was arrested in the Netherlands after escaping hotel quarantine, Dutch police said. They added that the arrests took place on a plane that was about to take off. The couple, a 30-year-old man from Spain and a 28-year-old Portuguese woman, were handed over to the health authorities, police told AFP. One of the…