An 11-year-old girl somehow survived after she was carried alone in a hot air balloon for seven miles in Crimea. The child had gone for a ride with her parents, another adult and an instructor. But the balloon hit the ground and all passengers except the girl fell out of the basket before it rose…
Air India has been forced to ground as many as 20 of its aircraft from a fleet of 127 due to lack of funds to replace their engines, a senior official has said. The debt-ridden airline, surviving on public doles, needs at least Rs. 1,500 crore to get new engines for these planes, and with…
Fiji Airways has adopted the A350 XWB as part of its expansion plans to broaden its international network. Two A350-900s will be leased from Dubai based DAE Capital, making Fiji Airways the newest operator and DAE Capital the latest customer. With its common type rating with the A330 Family, the A350 XWB was the natural…
A Ryanair and a Jet2 aircraft have been involved in a minor collision at East Midlands Airport this morning. The two aircraft clipped each other in fog this morning at about 07:50 BST. One of the aircraft was a stationary plane. A spokesman for the airport said it involved Ryanair and Jet2 planes but there…
Boeing statement: We want to provide a response to several news stories yesterday and today reporting on the disagree alert on the 737 MAX. Boeing included the disagree alert as a standard feature on the MAX, although this alert has not been considered a safety feature on airplanes and is not necessary for the safe…
Boeing did not tell its largest 737MAX customer Southwest Airlines, that a standard safety feature designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated. The safety feature is an alert that lights up in the cockpit if a plane’s angle-of-attack sensors transmit faulty data about the pitch of the plane’s nose. This feature is…
Saturday, April 14, a stowaway survived hidden inside the landing gear of the plane from Guadeloupe to Guyana. The circumstances are still not clear but a man was able to reach an Air France aircraft at Pointe à Pitre International Airport. The stowaway entered the landing gear compartment before the aircraft took off to Félix…
A Boeing 737-800 operated by El Al was forced to make an emergency landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport Monday morning, after the plane suffered a mechanical failure. The plane, which had been carrying 138 people, most of them teens on a youth trip to Poland ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, was en route…
According to report, from this summer Heathrow will introduce facial recognition technology that will mean passengers flying from the airport won’t need to show passports or boarding passes. The £50m project, which would see the technology used at check-in, bag drop, security and boarding gates, will reduce the average passenger’s journey through the airport by…
Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767-200 left engine was emitting flames shortly after departure from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport due to a birdstrike. Pilots of flight UM303 requested an emergency landing at OR Tambo International Airport shortly after take-off but continued to destination. The plane flew at a cruising altitude of 39,000 feet and did not appear…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK1968 to Istanbul returned to Birmingham Airport quickly after departure due to a tail strike. The aircraft (reg. TC-JYG) suffered a tail strike on departure from Birmingham Airport due to a gust a wind as Storm Hannah is crossing the UK. The Boeing 737 Next Gen departed at 10:45 LT and…
An Air India Boeing 777-200 suffered APU fire at Delhi Airport during preparing for flight #AI174 to San Francisco. The fire started when the plane was empty. The fire was doused immediately. Boeing 777-200 (reg. VT-ALF) was taken out of service.