A Southwest Airlines jet became disabled at an intersection on a runway at Boston’s Logan Airport Wednesday morning. The problem was due to a nose wheel issue on the plane, a MassPort spokesperson said. A crane is working to remove the Boeing 737.
Lionel Richie’s son has been cautioned by police after threatening to explode a bomb on a plane in a row with security staff at Heathrow airport. Miles Brockman Richie, 24, a model, also allegedly hit a security guard dring the clash at Terminal Five on Saturday morning. Richie was said to have got into an…
Air Algérie flight suffered an engine issue while landing on runway 24L at Montreal Airport, Canada. The aircraft (reg. 7T-VJG) experienced compressor stall in its left engine as it was landing on runway 24L at Montreal Airport (CYUL), Canada. The Boeing 767-300 was on ferry flight from Shannon.
Detroit Metropolitan Airport reopened Wednesday morning after being shut down for 14 hours as icy weather moved through the area. The airport in Romulus closed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and reopened around 10 a.m. Wednesday. “Detroit Metropolitan Airport is now open,” airport officials said in a statement. “Weather conditions have improved enough to allow the…
Boeing yesterday successfully completed the first test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing NeXt, which leads the company’s urban air mobility efforts, utilized Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to design and develop the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and will continue testing to advance the safety and…
British Airways is to paint four of its aircraft in retro livery to celebrate its 100th birthday. The first to be given the makeover will be a Boeing 747 (reg.G-BYGC), which will get a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) design. This livery was originally used between 1964 and 1974. The aircraft is expected to leave…
A young man did not want his parents, aboard flight #U24319 from Lyon, to join him in Rennes. We now know more about the bomb hoax that forced an easyJet aircraft from Lyon to Rennes, to turn back last Friday after an anonymous call. “The author of the facts has been identified. It is a…
The kingdom of Bahrain will be opening an eco-friendly underwater theme park that will be the largest in the world. Spanning an area of more than 100,000 square meters, the eco-friendly destination will be the final resting place for a 70-meter decommissioned Boeing 747 aircraft, the largest plane ever to be submerged. The unique theme park…
A ground stop has been issued for flights to Newark Airport after two drones were spotted over Teterboro Airport Tuesday evening, FAA officials said. The drones are no longer in the airspace and flights have resumed at Newark Airport, but there is a ground stop for planes headed to Newark from other airports until they…
Two people died Monday morning in a DC-3 crash near Kidron, located in Wayne County, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities said the crash happened at 11145 Hackett Road in Kidron just after 9am. Investigators say the plane had just taken off from Stoltzfus Airfield headed to Akron-Canton Airport. Investigators said the two people…
The head of Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission Haitham Misto has expressed Amman’s objection against opening the newly constructed Ramon International Airport in its current location near the Red Sea resort of Eilat. The Times of Israel cites the official as saying that the facility, situated less than 20km from the key Jordanian port of Aqaba, violates “international standards regarding respect for the sovereignty of airspace and…
All Nippon Airways is investigating an incident at Osaka after both engines of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner shutdown simultaneously. On January 17th, flight #NH985 from Tokyo Haneda to Osaka Itami with 118 members onboard was rolling down the runway after landing when the pilots deployed the thrust reversers to slow down the aircraft. The pilots then noticed both Rolls-Royce Trent…
