The first ever scheduled commercial passenger flight to remote Atlantic island Saint Helena has arrived on Saturday, October 14. It was operated by an SA Airlink Embraer E190-AR for South African Airways under flight number #SA8131 from Johannesburg (JNB) via Windhoek, Namibia (WDH) to Saint Helena Airport. The aircraft touched down at 1:58pm local time…
A plane crashed Saturday morning at sea shortly after taking off from Abidjanelix Houphout Boigny airport around 0900 UTC. UPDATE 4 have died and 4 survived the crash. First reports say it’s an Antonov An-26 (reg.ER-AVB) from the cargo charter company Valan Air carrying equipments for the French Army. The crash could have occurred during a storm…
Cebu Pacific Air Airbus A320 (reg. RP-3237) skidded off rain-slickened runway on landing. Operations at Iloilo International Airport in Philippines are closed during Saturday. Passengers were evacuated by emergency slides. In a notice to airmen (NOTAM) early Saturday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said that the airport was closed after the plane’s nose gear landed…
The investment arms of Boeing and jet Blue are helping fund start-up Zunum Aero, an electric-hybrid plane manufacturer. Zunum are designing and building 10-50 seat planes for trips of up to 1125km (700 miles). They aim to sell 10 seat electric-hybrid planes by 2022. The aircraft would travel at a speed of 545 km/h (340mph)…
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