Double sonic boom heard were heard over Italy after two Italian Air Force Eurofighters were scrambled from Istrana Air Base. The fighter jets were scrambled to intercept Air France Boeing 777-300ER (reg. F-GZNF) which lost radio contact with ATC. The Eurofighters intercepted the French aircraft over the skies of Lombardy where they identified the…
According to BBC, The pilot of a vintage jet which crashed on to a dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 men, is to be charged with manslaughter. The pilot was performing aerobatics when the Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in Sussex on 22 August 2015. Families of those who died…
Gun-wielding officers raided the Gulf Air jet shortly after 3pm – nearly eight hours after it took off from Bahrain International Airport. Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest was not terror-related. A spokesman said: “At around 3pm on Tuesday, March 20, Met officers arrested a 29-year-old man on board an inbound flight to Heathrow from Bahrain.…
At 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 21 March, some French air-traffic controllers will stop work in protest against labour reforms. The action will continue until 05:00 UTC on Friday 23 March. All airlines have been told to reduce their operations by 30% in flights to/from Paris CDG, Paris ORY, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon & Nantes.…
Obese passengers and parents with young children have been banned from flying business class on Thai Airways’ new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Thai Airways International (THAI) says the limit on waist sizes for passengers, and ban on carrying infants on laps, in business class on its two Boeing 787-9 aircraft is a consequence of the installation…
A Red Arrows plane has crashed with the pilot ejecting. A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said: “We were called shortly before 1.30pm this afternoon (Tuesday 20 March 2018) to reports an aircraft had crashed at RAF Valley in Holyhead”. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 1700 UTC An engineer has died after…
A six-seater Piper PA-32 crashed onto a house shortly after take-off on Saturday, 17 March, killing all five on board and five on ground. Two other Filipinos sustained injuries as the plane burst into flames. The plane took off from a small airport north of Manila (ICAO: RPUX) at 11.21 am local time, bound to…
Airbus and Heathrow airport are celebrating the 10th anniversary of A380 operations at the airport. They began on March 18th 2008 with the arrival of the first A380, a Singapore Airlines flight SQ308 from Singapore Changi airport making Heathrow one of the first to welcome Airbus’ iconic double decker. Heathrow is now the world’s busiest A380 airport…
The main sections of the first A380 for Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) have arrived at the Airbus final assembly line in Toulouse via a special convoy, with six subassemblies – the nose, central and aft fuselage sections, the tailplane, and the two wings. ANA Holdings placed a firm order of three A380s in 2016,…
The GE9X engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation’s 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing’s new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew for more than four hours on its first flight. During…
