European airlines can return to parts of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Wednesday, three weeks after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet amid an exchange of hostilities with U.S. forces in Iraq Following an EU aviation security risk group meeting, EASA said it was lifting temporary…
Passenger threatens to blow herself up on a grounded plane at Moscow Domodedovo airport. The female passenger is holding a bag claiming it has explosives inside. UPDATE Police is detaining the woman, Interfax news agency said. The Russian S7 Airline Airbus A321 part of has landed at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport from Simferopol. S7 said the…
Confronting footage has emerged of the moment the C-130 water tanker crashed while fighting raging bushfires in NSW, killing the three US firefighters on board. Captain Ian McBeth, first officer Paul Clyde Hudson and flight engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr were on board the C-130 Hercules aircraft when it crashed near Peak View, northeast of Cooma,…
The New York Times pieced together a chronology of the three days following the shot down of the Boeing 737. TUESDAY The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps deployed mobile antiaircraft defense units around a sensitive military area near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport. WEDNESDAY The central air defense command issued an alert that American warplanes had taken…
British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China as concerns grow over the coronavirus outbreak. The airline, which operates daily flights to Shanghai and Beijing from Heathrow, has also suspended bookings on its website until March following advice from the Foreign Office warning against “all but essential travel”. “We apologise…
A woman angry about not being allowed to board a plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was arrested after allegedly mentioning an explosive device, resulting in hundreds of travelers having to evacuate part of one concourse. A police bomb squad responded Friday but found no device and the airport soon returned to normal though…
A top CIA chief who orchestrated the assassination of an Iranian general was killed when a US military plane crashed in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, Tehran has claimed. The crashed plane in the east of Afghanistan was a Bombardier E-11A from the US Air Force. De Andrea, who was responsible for the assassination of Iran’s…
Days after Boeing warned airlines that they shouldn’t count on the 737 Max flying again before midyear, the FAA said it might move faster than that. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson spoke Friday with senior officials at Southwest (LUV), United (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL), the three US carriers that own the plane, to reiterate that…
A plane has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, officials have said. The aircraft came down in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni, to the south west of Kabul, a provincial spokesman told local media. The crashed plane in the east of Afghanistan looks to be a Bombardier E-11A from the US Air Force. Second Vice President…
Following the demise of Thomas Cook Airlines, the Polish Aviation Group PGL, owner of LOT Polish Airlines, is set to take over German leisure carrier, Condor. The deal was announced in Poland and should be finalized by April 2020 once regulatory approval is granted by the European Commission.
An Aeroflot flight that left Khabarovsk earlier in the day was due to fly to Moscow but was forced to return to the departure airport after receiving a bomb threat. The Aeroflot A330-300 has successfully landed in Russia’s Khabarovsk following reports of a bomb threat, emergency services reported on Monday. There have been no injuries,…
Caspian Airlines Flight 6936 took off from Tehran at around 6:44am local time and was trying to land in the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr in southwestern Khuzestan Province when it skidded off the runway on Monday, Tasnim News said. The Caspian Airlines aircraft, which skidded off the runway and landed in the middle of the…
