The world’s greatest show brings friends together on top of the world’s tallest building is stating Emirates. Back in August 2021, an Emirates video went viral showing showing flight attendant Nicole Smith-Ludvik in Emirates uniform standing holding signs. In the video, the camera eventually pans out to show where the cabin member stood, showing that…
Two F-16 fighter jets of the Portuguese Air Force were scrambled to meet a Ryanair’s flight that had lost contact with ATC. On Saturday, 8 January, a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (reg. EI-HAW) was performing flight #FR8132 from London Stansted to Gran Canaria Airport. When it was flying over Portuguese airspace, pilots lost contact with the…
The French government’s official spokesman, Gabriel Attal, said after a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday that Paris would ease travel restrictions from the UK to France in the next few days. “I confirm that a further easing of the restrictions with the UK will be announced in the coming days,” Gabriel Attal told reporters. “Work…
As many as 125 passengers on a single chartered flight from Rome, Italy to Amritsar, India, tested positive for COVID-19 after landing in Amritsar on Thursday last week. A total of 179 passengers were on board the charter flight, including 19 children. Among the passengers, 160 were tested as the children were exempted as they…
After almost two years, the first Qantas Airbus A380 has finally returned to the skies with passengers on board on Tuesday. The Qantas A380 with registration VH-OQB departed Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport as flight QF11 bound to Los Angeles International Airport at 22:07 local time on 11th January. The flight marks the return of…
North Korea on Tuesday fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea, its second launch in a week, following leader Kim Jong Un’s calls to expand its nuclear-weapons program in defiance of international opposition. The launches follow a series of weapons tests in 2021 that underscored how North Korea is continuing…
A bird has had a wild journey crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a plane after it accidentally “hopped on” the trans-Atlantic flight. Plane passenger Brooke Frazier was on board the eight-hour flight from Brussels, Belgium, and at some point mid-flight, she saw a little birdie flying through the aisle. She captured the bizarre scene on…
St. Elmo’s Fire over Georgia, USA. A pilot captured St. Elmo’s Fire while piloting a Boeing 767 somewhere over Georgia in USA. St. Elmo’s fire is a form of plasma. The electric field around the affected object causes ionization of the air molecules, producing a faint glow easily visible in low-light conditions.
An American Airlines passenger stormed the cockpit during boarding, damaged the flight controls, and then tried to jump out the window as the pilot attempted to stop him. A passenger broke into the cockpit of an American Airlines jet at an airport in Honduras and damaged the plane as it was boarding for a flight…
United Airlines is trimming its schedule to address a surge in sick calls among employees, CEO Scott Kirby told employees. U.S. airlines canceled thousands of flights over the year-end holidays through early this year due to Covid infections among crews and a series of winter storms. United first cut some flights before Christmas. JetBlue Airways…
A train hits an aircraft that crashed on railway tracks in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Police in Los Angeles, California, pulled the pilot from a crash-landed Cessna seconds before the aircraft was hit by a train on Sunday, sending debris flying in all directions. Dramatic video shows several officers freeing the man from the downed…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has launched an investigation into a cabin crew incapacitation incident during a Virgin Australia Regional Airlines flight over Western Australia 27 December 2021. The flight involved a Fokker 100 flying between Newman, Western Australia and Perth with 7 passengers and 5 crew. The ATSB states that while cruising at…