President Trump welcomed the crew of Southwest Flight 1380 to the White House on Tuesday. Sitting in the Oval Office, President Trump greeted Southwest pilot Captain Tammie Jo Shults, who safely landed flight #WN1380. He noted that Shults is “one of the first women ever to fly tactical fighter aircraft in the United States Navy.”…
An aircraft operated by a Spanish low-cost airline was evacuated this afternoon after an ‘explosion’ and then smoke and a burning smell filled the inside the plane. The Volotea flight from Asturias Airport to Sevilla, Spain was evacuated with no reports of any injuries. Passengers took to social media to Tweet photographs of a plume…
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted a US Navy P-8 spy plane this morning will flying over the Baltic Sea. Today’s incident saw the Russian jet come with 20 feet of the US plane, officials said. The P-8 spy plane was flying in international airspace of the Baltic Sea. It is the first military clash…
The Airports Commission is proposing a six and a half hour total ban on flights at Heathrow, that the International Air Transport Association (Iata) fears would hamper air cargo, which increasingly relies on overnight delivery, and reduce connecting flights of use to business passengers. At present overnight flights are allowed, but subject to a strict…
Emirates is reducing the number of aircraft in its fleet due to various factors like lower demand, pilot walkouts, weak loads etc. The airline is facing dip in demand, but they are also facing severe pilot shortage as it was reported in media that pilots are leaving the airline in the hundreds. Earlier last month…
Lion Air aircraft was damaged after skidding off runway overran on landing in rain at Gorontalo Airport Indonesia. The flight #JT892 took off from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta and landed runway 27 at Gorontalo. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. PK-LOO) became stuck in muddy ground. The 174 passengers and 7 crew members were evacuated by emergency escape slides. No…
The plane suffered an explosion during take-off at the Sharara oilfield in southern Libya, also injuring a fourth crew member, said Mohammad al-Zardumi, an official who works at the oilfield. So far, the cause of the crash has not yet been established. Brigadier Ahmad Alal, who heads military forces guarding the oilfield, said a technical…
Today at 14:53 LT, a Vietnam Airlines A321 from Ho Chi Minh City landed on wrong runway at Nha Trang Cam Ranh International Airport. A total of 203 passengers were on board with 7 crew members including the US citizen captain, working for Vietnam Airlines since January 2018. At the time of landing, the weather…
An Alaska Airlines flight safely touched down at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Friday night after reports of engine trouble. An Alaska Airlines spokesperson says 157 people were on board flight #AS145 when an oil filter bypass light came on in the cockpit. Pilots reportedly throttled down one engine and declared an emergency as…
Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority said Thursday that sandstorms, dust and unsettled weather have not affected flights from and to Kuwait International Airport. In a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the head of the Civil Aviation Authority Emad Al-Sanousi said that only two flights were affected by dust and low visibility. A Kuwaiti health official…
In October, Airbus announced the acquisition of Bombardier’s next-generation C Series airliner. Now, it looks like Airbus is thinking about renaming its new jet. The Bombardier C Series may soon be renamed the A200-family, sources told Bloomberg‘s Benjamin D Katz and Frederic Tomesco. More specifically, the CS100 and CS300 would be redesignated the A210 and…
