A British Airways plane has set a new record for the fastest New York to London flight thanks to an extremely powerful jet stream. The plane touched down at London Heathrow 4 hours and 56 minutes after taking off from New York’s JFK Airport. A jet stream exceeding 250mph acted to accelerate the flight as…
Severe weather warnings have been issued for the weekend, with strong winds of up to 80mph and widespread heavy rain expected. Heathrow Airport announced it had taken the joint decision with its airline partners to “consolidate” Sunday’s flight schedule in a bid to minimise the number of flights cancelled. Watch London Heathrow Airport live: cam.airlive.net/lhr…
An Icelandair Boeing 757, operating flight #FI529 suffered a right main gear collapse. Please reload for updates… UPDATE Keflavik Airport reopens. UPDATE Keflavik Airport looks to be closed after the Iceland Air incident. Flight #W94497 is diverting. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. TF-FIA, built 2000) experienced right main gear collapse on landing runway 10 at Keflavik,…
FAA administration Steve Dickson said that international air safety regulators are close to agreeing on the final fixes needed before the Boeing 737MAX can return to service. But Dickson also said that Boeing found a new software problem with the 737MAX. The issue is related to the alert function on the trim system, which helps raise…
After a number of unintended engine shutdowns, due to inadvertent liquid spillage over control panels, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Airbus A350-900/-1000 banning any liquids inside the cockpit. Two in-service occurrences were reported involving inadvertent liquid spillage on the ENG START panel or ECAM Control Panel (ECP) on…
Airbus confirmed that its A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China, closed as part of measures introduced to resolve the coronavirus outbreak. “Airbus observing Chinese government requirements for staff to work from home and is facilitating with IT equipment so employees from all locations including Tianjin do not need to travel to work where possible,”…
A bodyguard for David Cameron is being investigated after he reportedly left his gun in a toilet on a transatlantic flight. The Daily Mail newspaper reported that the weapon found on a trans-Atlantic flight was handed to flight attendants. As a former prime minister, Mr Cameron is entitled to continued security provided by the Metropolitan…
Cathay Pacific is asking its entire workforce to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave, its CEO announced Wednesday. On Tuesday, the carrier said it planned to cut about 30% of capacity over the next two months, including about 90% of flights to mainland China. The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which…
The last search for MH370 was conducted by Ocean Infinity, who consulted with official and independent researchers and subsequently scanned the seabed along the 7th arc as far north as S25° latitude. Since then, independent researchers have continued to analyze the available data to understand what areas of the seabed are the most likely, and…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft went into fault protection mode on Tuesday January 28th. The fault protection stems from a maneuver attempted on January 25th. On that day, Voyager 2 was supposed to execute a scheduled rotation maneuver. The spacecraft rotates itself 360 degrees to calibrate one of its instruments. NASA says there was a delay…
American Airlines flight was delayed in Dallas-Fort Worth for at least an hour because a passenger donned a gas mask while wearing a black beanie. American flight #AA2212 to Houston was delayed an hour because of the incident. Panicked people had to wait for the guy to be escorted off.
European airlines can return to parts of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Wednesday, three weeks after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet amid an exchange of hostilities with U.S. forces in Iraq Following an EU aviation security risk group meeting, EASA said it was lifting temporary…