The first Ultra Long Range Airbus A350 XWB to be delivered to launch customer Singapore Airlines has rolled out of the paintshop in the carrier’s distinctive livery. Now at an advanced stage of production, the aircraft will undergo further testing before being delivered to the airline in the coming months. Singapore Airlines has ordered seven A350-900 Ultra Long…
A safety report into the disappearance of flight MH370 has concluded that the plane was manually turned around mid-air, rather than being under the control of autopilot, and that “unlawful interference by a third party” could not be ruled out. It also disproved theories that had suggested the pilot and first officer brought the plane…
Narita International Airport closed one of its two runways Monday after an Air Canada plane entered a wrong taxiway upon its arrival. The Boeing 787 arriving from Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, carrying about 210 passengers and crew members, mistakenly entered the taxiway, which is under construction, and stopped there at around 3:45 p.m., a transport ministry…
(c) Facebok/usawtfmAtlas Air Boeing 767-300 sustained a cracked fuselage, and fixtures were ripped form the cabin overhead when it had a hard landing at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, New Hampshire, USA. Atlas Air flight 8601 on route from Portsmouth International Airport (PSM) to Colorado Springs Airport (COS) with redeploying troops from middle east on-board had a…
Emirates has apologised after a disabled teenager and his family were forced off a flight from Dubai to France. The Kumar family has been offered a complimentary hotel stay while in transit and rebooked on another flight after the incident in which teenager Eli was forced to disembark because he has epilepsy, despite the fact…
Air China flight #CA876 to Beijing returned to Paris CDG right after takeoff. The plane had to return after 45 minute flight due to threat against the flight received by the airline according to an official post on Weibo. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner safely landed at 13:45 local time. This false alarm is due to a…
Two Iraqi Airways pilots having an argument in mid-flight began physically fighting at 37,000 feet, hours after departing from an Iranian airport on Wednesday. The plane, which was carrying 157 passengers at the time, was headed to Iraq from the Mashhad Airport, a city to the northeastern-most province of Iran that borders Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Security guards…
The wings of two empty planes being moved at Boston’s airport have collided. No one was on board or injured. Officials at the Massachusetts Port Authority say the wings of two Delta planes clipped one another on the tarmac at Logan international Airport on Wednesday afternoon. A Delta Airlines spokesman says while one empty aircraft…
Bangladesh main international airport was temporarily closed after Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Dhaka skidded off runway. According to sources, the flight TG321 from the south at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport burst tyres and skidded on the main runway, blocking take-off and landing of all scheduled flights. The incident occurred at 12:20pm. The aircraft…
A passenger jet was reportedly forced to make an emergency landing in Moscow after a small dog, which somehow opened the luggage compartment from the inside, triggered an alarm onboard. The commander of a Boeing 737 travelling from St. Petersburg informed the ground services of the complications as it was approaching the Russian capital on…
An Air France Boeing 777-300 was intercepted by German fighters jets. Air France flight #AF267 from Seoul to Paris CDG was over Germany when German Air Traffic Control scrambled two Eurofighter jets to intercept the aircraft. The Boeing 777-300 (reg. F-GSQE) was intercepted on July 23th at 10:55 UTC over Wuppertalat 36,000ft due loss of communications.…
