International Airlines Group (IAG) has reported a huge loss for the third quarter and confirmed it will make further capacity cuts for the rest of the year. Total revenue at the group – which owns British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia – declined by 83 per cent to €1.2 billion over the past three months,…
A DHL cargo plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport on Saturday evening after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The Airbus A300 touched down safely after 11pm with emergency vehicles on standby it then taxied to the terminal. Airport firefighters were supported by fire crews from London Fire brigade The incident was…
This evening, the last KLM Boeing 747 flight will land at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport from Shanghai. KLM will say goodbye to the Boeing 747-400 on Sunday. It will land at Schiphol for the last time in the KLM colors, a spokesperson for the airline said. KLM announced in March of this year that it would…
Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the…
An Embraer ERJ-145 overran the runway upon landing on Grand Bahama. American Eagle Embraer ERJ-145LR (reg. N674RJ) was operating flight #AA4194 from Miami when it overran the runway 06 after landing in Freeport, Bahamas. All 25 passengers and crew are were not injured.
A presidential no-fly zone saw two military fighter jets intercept two Middle Tennessee private planes Thursday afternoon. NORAD confirms that a military jet was scrambled in the Dickson area to intercept a private aircraft. According to officials, the fighter deployed flares near the aircraft that had wandered into restricted air space. A no-fly zone was…
In a freak incident, allegedly drunk Russian soldiers rammed an infantry fighting vehicle in a concrete wall. In the viral video, a BMP-3 infantry vehicle can be seen approaching a wall topped with barbed wires at the Volgograd International Airport in the southwestern region of Russia and rams through it crossing the divide. According to…
Aviation experts probing the mystery of flight MH370 have identified a probable crash site that they say warrants a new search of the ocean floor. They believe the Malaysia Airlines jet flew 2,700 miles past Indonesia before crashing into the South Indian Ocean near to the coordinates of S34.2342 and E93.7875. Victor Iannello, who assisted…
A British Airways 747 departed for Dunsfold Aerodrome where it will begin its new life as a TV and film set. The aircraft, registration G-CIVW, departed from Cardiff Airport at 1.30pm as flight number BA1978E, landed in to Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey at 2.15pm. It will be handed over to the airport which will preserve…
A plane slid off the runway overnight at the Chicago Executive Airport in northwest suburban Wheeling. No one was injured Wednesday night when a small jet slid off a runway at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling and crashed into a light pole. The Learjet went off the end of Runway 30 about 11 p.m., pushing…
An unruly passenger punched a flight attendant in the face as she was kicked off a packed flight failing to wear her face mask correctly, witnesses claim. Footage shows the woman with her face mask pulled down around her neck when she throws a punch at the Delta Air Lines crew member, who is wearing…
Cathay Pacific has agreed to scale back planned job cuts by 25 per cent to around 6,000 globally, and will axe its Cathay Dragon sister airline brand, according to multiple sources. Hong Kong’s flagship carrier was eyeing global lay-offs of up to 8,000, but has now reduced the number to about 18 per cent of…
