Southwest Florida International Airport has released video of a lightning strike incident involving a NavStar employee on the tarmac in July. Austin Dunn, 21, suffered third-degree burns, muscle damage and bleeding in the brain when lightning struck a plane near him on July 22, 2017 at the Southwest Florida International Airport. While the airport activated its…
Two Air Algeria pilots were suspended for letting a child handle a ATR672, registered 7T-VUT which was to connect Alger to Setif in commercial flight. As part of an initiative taken by an association for the assistance of orphans without support, the crew invited an orphaned child to the cockpit. Sitting on the captain’s…
The event took place at the end of a day of stress for more than 150 passengers. They had been due to travel on flight #U22122 from Nice-Cote d’Azur airport at 11am. The airline says it “was delayed departing Nice due to a technical issue with the aircraft”. The original aircraft had arrived from Luton…
Body parts that could belong to passengers killed in one or other of two Air India plane crashes more than 50 years ago have been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, sources said Friday. Daniel Roche, who is fascinated by air plane accidents and has spent years combing the Bossons Glacier looking for…
Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and New South Wales Police carried out a counter-terrorism raid in several suburbs of Sydney late Saturday night 29 July 2017, with 4 men being arrested. Australian Prime Minsister Malcom Turnbull has confirmed that raids disrupted a plot to make an improvised explosive device and smuggle…
After ruling as “Queen of the Skies” for more than 40 years, the Boeing 747 made its last domestic run for United Airlines Friday night. The historic flight departed from Chicago O’Hare International Airport for San Francisco International Airport. United still operates international 747 flights to Europe and Asia, but ended regular domestic flights years…
Authorities in Romania have denied access to its airspace for a Russian flight that was headed to Chisinau in Moldova. Russia’s deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, was on board the passenger plane, which had to request an emergency landing in Belarus. Russia’s ambassador to Moldova, Farit Mukhametshin, who was waiting for Rogozin at Chisinau airport,…
NASA’s dreams of supersonic flight have stepped closer to reality, as the space agency prepares to begin tests at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida next month. But, for people who live in the surrounding area, this progress will come with a price – dozens of sonic booms, with as many as three per day for more…
Air France-KLM is buying almost a third of Virgin Atlantic, leaving Sir Richard Branson’s parent company, Virgin Group, with a minority stake in the airline he founded. Air France-KLM is taking a 31% stake, worth £220m, in Virgin Atlantic as part of a four-way joint-venture with US partner Delta. Virgin Group’s share will fall from…
The Port Authority Board of Commissioners today authorized $54.4 million to rehabilitate Runway 4-22 and associated taxiways at LaGuardia Airport to extend their useful life and ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration standards. Work on the 7,000 feet long and 150 feet wide runway will take place during nightly airport closures and extended weekend runway…
Christiaan van Heijst, 34, Dutch Pilot of a Boeing 747-8 Freighter took these breath-taking photos during a flight from Hong Kong to Baku in Azerbaijan on Sunday on an airway heading over the Himalayas. Van Heijst’s freighter aircraft was flying at over 32,000 feet when the missile blasted past overhead. Christiaan said: ‘Suddenly we noticed…
Indian pilot Anny Divya claims to have become the youngest woman in the world to captain a Boeing 777. The 30-year-old’s achievement has been widely reported in India, where she flies for commercial airline Air India. “From a child, I always wanted to be a pilot, although I didn’t have much guidance on how to…