Service on what Singapore Airlines says will become the longest commercial flight in the world begins on Oct 11. The flights will be daily beginning on Oct 18. Singapore Airlines will be the first airline to use Airbus’ A350-900 ULR (for ultra long range) planes, which have extra fuel capacity, are made of a carbon…
Yakutia Airlines Antonov An-24 experienced three out of four maingear tires burst on landing. The flight #R3438 from Lensk landed at at Yakutsk with 28 passengers and 4 crew.
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight #JD421 bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news…
A top North Korean official is heading to the U.S. on Wednesday for meetings in hopes of salvaging a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump. Kim is on Air China’s Flight #CA981 to New York, which departed later Wednesday afternoon (source: South Korea’s Yonhap News). Kim Yong Chol…
A British traveller has died after falling from a plane door onto the tarmac of a Turkish airport. Staff at Dalaman Airport, in southwest Turkey, were trying to remove the 30-year-old from the flight when he fell from an exit. The 30-year-old man fell on the tarmac and was knocked unconscious. An ambulance took him…
The four-year hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has ended with the latest, privately funded search coming to a close. US-based Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to survey a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean. But it found nothing and Malaysia’s government says it has no plans to begin any new…
Part of Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 was evacuated after a crack formed in the floor of a temporary gate lounge, sparking confusion for passengers. Travellers reported loud noises as the crack suddenly formed, with one saying it sounded like the floor was “collapsing” and another describing “mad panic”. One photo posted online showed a crack…
Panicked passengers of a Lion Air flight were evacuated after a new bomb hoax in Indonesia. This is the 9th bomb hoax on airplanes in Indonesia in May 2018.
A security camera captured the moment before ground impact of the Global Air Damojh B737-200 (XA-UHZ) operating as Cubana flight #CU972 on May 18, 2018. The aircraft plummeting out of control before it crashed near Havana Airport leaving 111 dead. All updates: https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-plane-has-crashed-after-take-off-from-jose-marti-international-airport-cuba/
Following the start of final assembly work in April, ANA’s (All Nippon Airways) first A380 has completed airframe assembly and today made its debut in Toulouse. With the ANA logo on its vertical tail, the aircraft has moved to an outdoor station where structural completion, engine installation and cockpit furnishing will be conducted. System testing for…
A plane has been struck by another passenger jet at Stansted Airport. Ryanair flight #FR205 to Dublin was stationary at the designated holding point on the taxiway at London Stansted Airport this morning when the winglet of a Primera Air aircraft taxiing behind scraped its tail stabiliser. Cabin crew quickly confirmed to those on board that…
