An EasyJet flight from Geneva to Copenhagen was moments from taking off when a passenger glanced out of his window and noticed a spanner in the wing. The passenger alerted the pilot and the flight was halted. “I realised straight away that what I was seeing was not normal. “There was a spanner attached to…
Several objects that could be debris from a Boeing 777 has been found off Mozambique and Reunion island are being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Photos of debris found off Mozambique The man who found the piece of Boeing 777 wreckage off the Mozambique coast has been traveling around the…
American B-52 bombers are “ready and able” to strike ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, a top Air Force official confirmed Monday. The air campaign against ISIS is “taking a toll on our aircraft, our readiness and our airmen” but the “venerable B-52 … remains ready and able to meet combatant commander requirements,” Secretary of…
Qatar Airways will begin direct flights to Auckland from December 3 and in the process put one of the world’s longest non-stop flights onto its network map. The 9,000 mile journey on a long-range Boeing 777-200LR jet will see passengers strapped in for around 17½ hours. Flight QR921 will depart Auckland at 2.40pm to reach…
The UN’s aviation agency has announced real-time tracking of airliners will be introduced to stop a disappearance like that of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 two years ago. The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal adopted new measures requiring aircraft to have tracking devices that can transmit location information at least once…
Emergency services have been called to the scence of a light plane crash Thursday afternoon. Emergency services were quickly to establish that the only soul on board, the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigations have began into what caused the light plane to crash. –Brendan Grainger
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Ohio-based aviation holding company Air Transport Services Group has confirmed it has a deal with Amazon and will wet-lease twenty B767 freighters for use in its US distribution network. The aircraft will operate for Amazon Fulfillment Services, Inc., on five year contracts with the leases to last between five and seven years. Until now, Amazon had…
Now that's a view of the #Eclipse2016 from flight #870. Photo: Anchorage flight attendants Rachael C. & Sofia S. pic.twitter.com/Sa6qOUysRu — Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) March 9, 2016
A passenger found out that a woman was hiding a baby in her hand luggage on board Air France flight. A passenger of flight Air France #AF1891 from Istanbul to Paris CDG was shocked after finding out a woman was carrying a baby son in her hand luggage Monday night, Planet.fr reports. The bag belonged to…
A survey of 718 British air stewards aged 18 and over who are currently in the job or have been in the past five years found that 89 per cent said they had broken airline rules during a flight. When they were asked what rules they had broken, 21% said they had “indulged in sexual relations…
A 27-year-old man has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in the bathroom of an airplane on a domestic flight, officials said. A 27 year old MBA student from Tempe, Arizona, was arrested Monday after his Delta flight touched down at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC). Salt Lake County Sheriff’s office said…