Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Ryanair flight that temporarily lost all contact with air traffic control at the weekend. Ryanair flight #FR9525 took off from Lublin Airport in Poland on Saturday night bound for London Stansted when it suffered a radio communications failure around two hours into the flight. Two F16 fighter jets…
London’s Heathrow Airport has apologised for a promotion at a duty-free stores that required Chinese shoppers to spend a higher amount than other travellers to enjoy a special discount. At World Duty Free store, Chinese travellers were asked to pay a minimum spend of £1,000 ($1,381) to receive a 20% discount, while other shoppers paid…
Saratov Airlines An-148 (reg. RA-61704) crashed around the village of Argunovo shortly after takeoff from Moscow. Sixty-five passengers were on board the plane, along with six crew. Later on Sunday, the Emergencies Ministry published the full list of all 71 people killed in the crash. Among them were three children and three foreigners, reportedly citizens…
Emirates and Airbus firmed up an earlier Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and signed a contract for the 20 additional A380s with a further 16 options to be confirmed at a later date. The total agreement for 36 aircraft is valued at US$16 bn based on latest list prices. Deliveries are to start as early as…
London City Airport is closed today as disposal experts work to make safe a WWII bomb which was found in the Thames nearby. UPDATE Arrivals unavailable till 2200 UTC. UPDATE All City Jet flights flights will operate to Southend Airport today. The German 500kg fused device was found on Sunday and a cordon put up late…
Three people were killed and four others were injured after a helicopter with seven aboard crashed in the Grand Canyon Saturday, authorities said. The aircraft suffered “substantial damage”, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority said. It was in the Grand Canyon West area when it came down at around 17:20 local time (00:20 GMT)…
Aer Lingus ATR 72-600 was surrounded by fire crew due to engine warning. Passengers were disembarked normally and the aircraft joined stand. Flight #EI3227 took off at 15:32 UTC from Glasgow and reported engine warning after landing in Dublin at 16:18 UTC.
Original footage showing #Iranian UAV infiltrating and then shot down over Israel, and #IDF strike on Iranian command vehicle in #Syria pic.twitter.com/Sz6poAOdjc — Jonathan Conricus (@LTCJonathan) February 10, 2018 The Israeli military has published footage of what they say was the destruction of an Iranian drone invading Israeli airspace, which led to a cross-border air…
Israel’s main airport briefly halted all departures and delayed some landings Saturday morning due to military clashes along the northern border. Flights at Ben Gurion International Airport were delayed for around an hour starting at 9 a.m. following a security assessment. Regular air traffic later resumed. The airport is considered a strategic location that could…
An Israeli F-16 fighter jet has been shot down by Syrian military while targeting what it called Iranian sites responsible for launching a drone into occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli military said on Saturday “a combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian UAV that was launched from Syria and infiltrated Israel”. “IDF [Israel Defence Forces] has…
North Korea leader Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo-jong landed in South Korea as part a high-level delegation for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Ilyushin-62 aircraft, marked in Korean script “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, the North’s official name, and its tailfin emblazoned with a Northern emblem, touched down at Incheon airport near Seoul. Pyongyang notified…
