A large hole (1x1m) in the nose cone was discovered after an Air China Boeing 737-800 it landed in Hong Kong from on Thursday March 22. Air China said in a statement on its Weibo page that the plane had been hit by a bird while on its journey from Tianjin city in north-east China…
The incident took place onboard Air India flight #AI121 on March 17 to Frankfurt. Over an hour after it departed Delhi airport at 2.20pm, “a flight attendant mistakenly served a business-class passenger non-vegetarian meal instead of a vegetarian one. The passenger, who was seated on 1D, saw it was wrong meal and pointed it out…
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…
