Ukrainian forces have used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and aircraft, current and former officials told NBC News. As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air…
A report conducted by French aviation experts has concluded that the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 in 2016, which killed all 66 people on board, was likely caused by a fire sparked from a pilot’s cigarette. Flight MS804 was bound from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport to Cairo, but plunged into the sea between Crete…
On March 5, pilots of Air France flight AF11 reported a serious issue with commands on final approach to Paris. The Boeing 777 (reg. F-GSQJ) was on approach to runway 26L when the crew reported an issue. Pilots said ‘the plane didn’t respond to the commands’ and started to deviate to its left. The Bureau…
Starlink satellites sent into space by Elon Musk’s SpaceX are helping Ukrainian military drones destroy Russian tanks and army trucks, according to a report. A Ukrainian air reconnaissance specialist says his military has been operating drones specially fitted with thermal cameras that can detect Russian vehicles at night, according to the Times of London. The…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been causing a lot of trouble for a while now. Ukrainians are worried for their lives, and even Russians are being affected due to the sanctions put on Russia. Furthermore, hundreds of Russian citizens have been helpless in foreign countries as flights are cancelled, and their credit cards won’t…
Finnair said that some of its airplanes flying near Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave and eastern border with Russia had noticed interference with the plane’s GPS in the last few days. The interference reportedly began after Finnish President Sauli Niinisto met U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Saturday to discuss increasing defence ties between Finland and…
Several aircraft were infested with insects in the UK last year, according to a report that has just emerged. Eight planes could not take off from London’s Heathrow airport last July due to wasp and bee nests blocking crucial ‘pitot probes’. Pitots are studded tubes which are used to measure airplane speed. Seven of the…
On May 23, 2021, Ryanair flight FR-4978, flying from Athens to Lithuania with 126 passengers, including opposition activist and journalist Raman Pratasevich and six crew members, was diverted to Minsk airport amid a false bomb threat. The Boeing 737 was in the Ukrainian airspace, about 5 minutes from Belarus airspace when Minsk Airport received e-mails.…
On December 15, 2021, a Gulfstream Aerospace GIV-SP with registration HI-1050 owned by Helidosa Aviation Group crashed while landing at Las Americas International Airport, Dominican Republic, killing nine people, including music producer ‘Flow La Movie’. The Aviation Accident Investigation Commission (CIAA) was notified on the same day, and the investigation crew had arrived two hours…
Two Ryanair planes had a near miss at Malaga airport two years ago, an investigation has concluded, almost colliding in what investigators have called a “serious incident”. The official investigation by Spain’s civil aviation authority yesterday revealed that an air traffic controller at the Andalucia airport had given one Ryanair flight permission to land on…
A collision in the sky between two A350s after TCAS triggered. On January 6, 2022 at 23:04 UTC, automatic pilot of two Air Mauritius A350s suddenly changed their trajectories while flying over Sudan as the aircraft detected a risk of collision. Flight #MK015 from Paris and flight #MK042 were flying at 39,000 ft when they…
Brussels Airlines has operated 3,000 flights without passengers this winter to avoid losing take-off and landing slots. The airline’s parent company, Lufthansa Group, confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty, including 3,000 Brussels Airlines services, according to a report in The Bulletin. EU rules require that airlines operate a certain percentage of scheduled flights to keep…