A jetliner flown by a subsidiary of Air France that made an emergency landing in Iran stayed on the ground for several hours Wednesday before flying to Dubai. The Airbus A340 flown by the low-cost carrier Joon was heading from Paris to Mumbai when it landed in the central Iran city of Isfahan. Joon said…
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dash-8 Q400 (reg. S2-AGQ) has crash-landed during landing of flight #BG060. The aircraft arrears to have skidded off left of the runway. All passengers have been reported as safe, with 15 injured people. The aircraft fuselage broke in three and the undercarriage collapsed. Biman’s Flight #BG060 took off from Hazrat Shahjalal…
The pilot of a Mirage F1 fighter jet shot down south of Tripoli by the Libyan National Army is allegedly a Portuguese fighting in Libya as a “mercenary,” Haftar’s forces claim. The pilot has been captured by the LNA’s forces, reports say. The incident comes a day after Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar reportedly ordered the LNA…
The remains of a Bombardier Challenger 600 have been found after it disappeared en route from the U.S. city of Las Vegas to Monterrey in northern Mexico, an official of Mexican state of Coahuila said on Monday. The crash happened in Coahuila, north Mexico, after the plane lost contact with the control tower of Aeropuerto…
Boeing statement: On every airplane delivered to our customers, including the MAX, all flight data and information needed to safely operate the aircraft is provided in the flight deck on the primary flight deck displays. This information is provided full-time in the pilots’ primary field of view, and it always has been. Air speed, attitude,…
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed in fire at at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Flight #SU1492 to Murmansk declared a radio failure shortly after departure from Moscow and then a general emergency. Please reload for updates… UPDATE 7 Wreckage of Aeroflot Superjet 100 has been removed today at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. UPDATE 6 According to Russian media…
Nordwind Airlines aircraft has been damaged by a truck at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. The Airbus A321 (reg. VQ-BOD) has been damaged when a truck slammed into the fuselage at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. Reports say the driver fell alseep.
A military charter flight from Guantanamo Bay carrying 142 people overshot a runway Friday night, at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, and ended up in the water. Miami Air #LL293 arriving at NAS Jacksonville from NAS Guantanamo Bay went off the end of the runway into the river on landing at about 9:40 p.m. local…
Air Arabia is likely to place an order for 100 aircraft in the next three or four months, according to CEO Adel Ali. Speaking on a panel at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, Ali said that the airline had yet to take a decision on what aircraft it would order, but said that it…
An 11-year-old girl somehow survived after she was carried alone in a hot air balloon for seven miles in Crimea. The child had gone for a ride with her parents, another adult and an instructor. But the balloon hit the ground and all passengers except the girl fell out of the basket before it rose…
Air India has been forced to ground as many as 20 of its aircraft from a fleet of 127 due to lack of funds to replace their engines, a senior official has said. The debt-ridden airline, surviving on public doles, needs at least Rs. 1,500 crore to get new engines for these planes, and with…
Fiji Airways has adopted the A350 XWB as part of its expansion plans to broaden its international network. Two A350-900s will be leased from Dubai based DAE Capital, making Fiji Airways the newest operator and DAE Capital the latest customer. With its common type rating with the A330 Family, the A350 XWB was the natural…
