Passengers were evacuated via slides after smoke on Air India Express Muscat-Cochin flight IX-442, . As many as 151 people were evacuated from an Air India Express plane at the Muscat airport on Wednesday after fire and smoke were noticed in one of the engines and aviation regulator DGCA is probing the incident, according to…
Heathrow flights will be disrupted to ensure ‘silence’ during procession for the Queen. Out of respect for the period of mourning following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Heathrow will be making appropriate alterations to flight operations. Some flights between 13:50 – 15:40 local time, Wednesday 14 September, will be disrupted to ensure…
The European low-cost airline Wizz Air has managed to rescue an Airbus A320 aircraft out from Ukraine. A Wizzair A320 (reg. HA-LWS) has taken off from western Ukrainian city of Lviv and landed in Katowice, a flight of just to Poland. Wizz Air still has three other Airbus A320 aircraft stuck in Ukraine since the…
Ahead of the funeral, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office has issued strict protocols for attending foreign heads of state and officials. According to multiple reports by UK media, the funeral for attending foreign officials is by strict invitation with numbers limited to a head of state and their spouse or a senior government official…
Charles III is expected to board a plane to Northolt.
A video showing the dramatic moment a Wizz Air jet flew almost within touching distance of tourists in Greece has gone viral on social media. Clearing the fence of Skiathos Airport by just metres, it goes on to land safely on the runway. But this isn’t necessarily an unusual occurrence on the Greek Island. The…
The RAF paid £80 million for the planes to carry VIP passengers such as royals and senior politicians. Liz Truss and Boris Johnson flew to their appointments with the Queen in Scotland today on two French-made Dassault 900LX business jets, which replaced British-designed and manufactured BAe 146 aircraft when they were retired earlier this year.…
A drug-sniffing dog led police Friday at a Milan airport to nearly 30 pounds of cocaine stuffed into the leather upholstery of a motorized wheelchair. The specialized canine unit was being deployed at Malpensa airport to check arriving passengers and their luggage from a flight from the Dominican Republic, since drug couriers had previously used…
Israel will ban four engine-planes as of March 31, 2023 to reduce noise and air pollution, its airports authority said. As part of a broader plan under development to improve the surrounding environment, the authority said that it had already told airlines they would not be able to land large airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport…
Cory Patterson worked at Tupelo Aviation at the Tupelo Regional Airport for ten years. A rogue student pilot who stole an aircraft and threatened to crash it into a Mississippi Walmart Saturday has been arrested. The suspect will be charged by police with grand larceny and making terroristic threats. The federal government may proceed with…
A baggage handler has died after her hair got caught in a conveyor belt at an airport in New Orleans. Jermani Thompson, 26 was unloading baggage from a Frontier Airlines plane at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport when the accident happened at about 10pm local time on Tuesday. Her hair had got entangled in…
Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 has been evacuated after a “suspicious item” prompted a security alert. A Heathrow spokesperson said: “Our teams are working with the police, in response to a potentially suspicious item identified at Terminal 2. “As a precaution, passengers have been temporarily moved away from the area. We apologise to any passengers inconvenienced…