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…
Southwest flight #WN957 from Chicago Midway to Newark made an emergency landing in Cleveland after new window incident. The Boeing 737-700 (reg. N713SW) suffered a window incident. According to reports, the emergency exit window shattered in-air. A passenger reported that it sounded like a loud crack after something hit the window and shattered it. Passengers…
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…
