Brad New British Airways Airbus A350-1000 has been lightly damaged at Tel Aviv. British Airways A350-1000 (only one month old) performed flight #BA163 from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv on 19th January. The aircraft (reg. G-XWBD) suffered a hard landing runway 12 at Tel Aviv. The aircraft suffered light damages and needed checks forcing the…
Boeing doesn’t expect regulators to sign off on the 737 Max until June or July, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. That date is months later than the manufacturer previously expected. The delays pose another headache for carriers who have already missed one peak travel season without the planes. Shares of the aircraft manufacturer…
Crystina, who is a reporter for ESPN, was flying from LA to Chicago on Wednesday when the plane diverted to New Mexico to remove the passenger. She wrote on Twitter: “We just had to land the plane in New Mexico to remove an unruly passenger. He was wasted, kicking the seats, hit a flight attendant.…
Following its strategy to keep its overall production system at the leading edge of technology and to increase industrial capacity and flexibility, Airbus has decided to create new A321 production capabilities at its site in Toulouse. By mid-2022 the current A380 Lagardère facility in Toulouse will accommodate a digitally-enabled A321 line as a step to…
Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analyzed abroad.
A large fire has broken out near the Qantas terminal at Sydney Airport. Airport fire crews were called to fuel storage depots next to the tarmac after 7pm today after a factory on Coward Street in Mascot went up in flames. Authorities have more than 18 crews on the ground made up of 70 fire…
According to UK climatology expert Stephen Burt (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading), the mean sea level barometric pressure at Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 mb (30.99”) at midnight GMT Sunday night (7 p.m. EST). Not only is this a record for Heathrow, beating 1047.3 mb from February 7, 1964, but it’s also the highest barometric…
Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 that the Iranian military shot down, an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad. Iran’s Tasnim news agency also reported the authorities were prepared for experts from France, Canada and the…
Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft at Toulouse-Blagnac airport. The test crew comprising of two pilots, two flight test engineers and a test flight engineer took off initially at around 10h15 on 18 December and conducted a total of 8 take-offs over a period of four and a…
A Delta flight slid off the pavement Friday morning at Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, an airport spokesman said. Delta Flight 1114 was taxiing from the airport terminal when its nose wheel dropped off the taxiway pavement. The aircraft that slid off of Taxiway Juliet at taxi speed: Delta 1114 to Detroit with 129…
A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport after an apparent engine fire. Video recorded by a passenger early Thursday morning showed sparks coming from right engine. United said the plane experienced a mechanical issue. The airline issued the following statement: United 1871 from Newark, New Jersey…
Emergency services reported no injuries or aircraft damage, ascertaining the jet had landed on a non-operational runway. An IrAero Superjet 100, en route from Sabetta, the Tyumen Oblast, Russia, performed a charter flight #SU95 to airport Domodedovo in Moscow. No casualties were reported, and the plane sustained no damage, according to preliminary data. The Superjet…
