Fifty crocodiles have been seized at Heathrow airport after their transport conditions breached regulations. The year-old reptiles, which arrived on a flight from Malaysia, had fought each other during the journey due to their cramped circumstances. Each of the five transportation boxes used had room for four crocodiles – but 10 foot-long animals were in…
A cargo jet carrying consignment of horses has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport after the crew reported a possible fire on board. Martinair flight 7342 was travelling from Miami in the US to Amsterdam with six crew on board. 52 horses on board the KLM Cargo Boeing 747-400 freighter which was operating on…
Two Russian long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by a pair of F-22 Raptor fighter jets on Friday, the military said. The Tu-95 bombers were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands, where they were visually identified and shadowed by the U.S. jets…
A naked man was arrested on Friday at Daytona Beach International Airport after he prompted an evacuation with statements about a bomb. A 25-year-old man had gone into an airport restroom that was under construction, placed a bag inside a hole in a wall and emerged from the restroom without wearing his clothes. He went…
The NTSB issued an investigative update Thursday for its ongoing investigation of the fatal, April 17, engine failure on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. The Boeing 737, powered by CFM International engines, experienced a failure of the left CFM-56-B engine after departing New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The engine experienced a failure of a fan blade, which…
In a statement, the Board of Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) confirms that it has received two separate conditional proposals from IAG Group in relation to an acquisition of 100 percent of the share capital of NAS. These proposals were reviewed in conjunction with NAS’ financial and legal advisers, and were unanimously rejected on the basis…
Newly released video shows just how close an Air Canada Airbus A320 came to mistakenly landing on a crowded taxiway at San Francisco International Airport last year. The Air Canada airliner can be seen descending as it travels along the top of the frame. About 67 seconds into the video, the plane rises quickly, barely…
Dubai International Airport, the world largest airport, received 7.85 million passengers in March, a 4.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2017, boosted by the Easter holidays, operator Dubai Airports said. In total for the first quarter passenger arrivals climbed to just over 22.74 million, up 1.1 per cent, compared to the 22.49…
Nearly 80,000 square kilometres have been searched since January without finding any sign of the wreckage as the latest search enters its final days. The search enters its final phase this week, more than four years after the jet went down. This comes despite earlier hopes that a 25,000-square-kilometre area most likely to contain the…
A 25-five-year old Chinese man was arrested by police after opening the emergency door of a plane. The passenger told police he had been feeling hot and stuffy, and so decided to open the emergency door of the plane. The plane was waiting to take-off from Mianyang Nanjiao Airport, in Sichuan Province, when Super Brains…
A Russian Su-30SM fighter crashed in Syria, with both pilots having perished in the incident, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. On Thursday morning, a Russian Su-30SM went down in the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Khmeimim Airbase. Pilots “fought to take the aircraft under control till the last minute,” the Russian Defense ministry said. Both…
Emergency crews are responding to a military plane crash in Savannah, Georgia. The Puerto Rico Air National Guard C-130 was flying from Savannah, Georgia, to Tucson, Arizona, where it was to be decommissioned. The plane involved in Wednesday’s crash was at least 50 years old, according to an official familiar with the aircraft. Prayers…
