North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile Tuesday which flew over Japan, Seoul and Tokyo said. South Korea’s military said it had “detected one suspected medium-range ballistic missile that was launched from Mupyong-ri area of Jagang Province at around 7:23 am (22:23 GMT) today and passed over Japan in the eastern direction”. In a statement,…
According to media reports, almost the entire fleet of United States Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules has been grounded. The Air Force has grounded most of its older C-130H Hercules cargo planes and variants due to a problem with their propeller barrels. Air Mobility Command on Friday confirmed a wide swath of its C-130H fleet,…
A Russian military aircraft crash-landed in Sevastopol, Crimea. The incident took place on 1 October at the airfield Belbek in Sevastopol, Crimea. Governor of Sevastopol said: “Extraordinary situation at the Belbek airfield. According to rescuers, the plane skidded off the runway during landing and caught fire. The fire brigade is currently on the scene. Please…
A Singapore Airlines flight to San Francisco was escorted by fighter jets after a passenger allegedly claimed there was a bomb in his carry-on bag and assaulted the crew. A 37-year old man was arrested on Wednesday morning (28 September) after making a bomb threat on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from San Francisco.…
A U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in about four years, set to join other military vessels in a show of force intended to send a message to North Korea. USS Ronald Reagan and ships from its accompanying strike group docked at a naval base in the southern…
Shortly after President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine during a Wednesday speech to the United Nations, a fighter jet scrambled to intercept a nearby potential threat. A small plane flew into restricted airspace about 20 nautical miles east of New York City about 11:40 a.m. and did not respond to radio calls, according…
Vulcan bomber at Wellesbourne airfield has just overshot the runway during a hot taxi run. Almost made it to the road. A Vulcan bomber has run off a runway at an airfield in Warwickshire, narrowly avoiding a local road. Warwickshire Police said Stratford Road was closed near Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield after the incident on Friday.…
A Russian Su-25 attack aircraft has crashed on takeoff. “The Su-25 invaders suddenly refused to fly, so it will not bring death to the Ukrainians,” Tsaplienko wrote in a comment on the video, without specifying exactly where the plane crashed. Journalist Andrei Tsaplienko reported this on Telegram on Monday, September 12. In this video, it…
An USAF Special Operations CV-22 Osprey is stuck in the nature reserve Stongodden on the island of Senja in Troms (Norway). The aircraft, CV-22B 10-0053, belonging to the 7th Special Operations Squadron ‘Aircommandos’ based at Mildenhall (UK), made an emergency landing there on 12 August 2022. Since the event, the Osprey is stuck on the…
Black Bear Scales Barbed Wire Fencing in Florida. A driver in Florida recorded a video of a black bear scaling a fence at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, on August 10. Kevin Dalrymple, the recorder, was driving by the air base that morning when he spotted the big bear carefully maneuvering over…
A Red Arrows plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday after it collided with a bird during a display flight, shattering the windscreen. The cracked cockpit canopy can clearly be seen in pictures of the plane, taken as it comes into land at Hawarden airport in Wales. The pilot had been flying…
Russian jets suspected of violating Finnish airspace, defence ministry says. Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets are suspected of violating Finnish airspace on Thursday morning near the coastal city of Porvoo on the Gulf of Finland, the Finnish defence ministry said. The suspected violation happened at 0640 GMT and the jets were westbound, communications chief Kristian…