In a viral video circulating on social media back in May, a male passenger on a flight from Xi An to Yinchuan is shown getting up from one knee after successfully proposing to his girlfriend, who happens to be a stewardess on the flight. The teary-eyed lass then spoke through the inflight announcement system: “I…
Following an incident on board with a passenger, an Air Austral flight departing from Paris CDG airport and bound for Mayotte was canceled on Monday, 17 September. An Air Austral flight was canceled Monday night due to an incident on board with a passenger. Chartered by the company Hifly, the A330 was due to depart from…
A Russian military aircraft with 14 people on board has disappeared from radar after flying over Syria, Russia’s defence ministry says. “Connection has been lost with the crew of a Russian Il-20 plane over the Mediterranean Sea,” the ministry said. Contact was lost at about 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Monday, it added. UPDATE The…
The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) took to the skies today, completing a maiden flight from the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse, France to the Airbus site in Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft is now being prepared for cabin installation and painting in the airline’s special A380 livery. ANA placed a firm order for three…
Ryanair will train up to 450 new pilots over the next five years as part of a new training partnership with a Cork-based international flight school. The pilots will train for 16 months intensively at the school, which the budget airline is running in conjunction with Cork’s Atlantic Flight Training Academy to support further growth across…
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Monday that the missile that shot down flight MH17 in June 2014, killing 298 people on board, had been produced in 1986 and was owned by Ukrainian authorities. Russia said they were able to track down the Buk missile’s paper trail using two serial numbers found on fragments of the…
At 08:30 (local time) this morning, two Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon were scrambled from Grosseto Air Base to intercept an Ukranian Vulkan Air Antonov An-26. The aircraft was flying from Tanger to Rome FCO. The aircraft (reg. UR-CQD) lost radio contact with ATC. The Antonov was escorted during the landing in Rome FCO.
Reports confirmed that Syrian air defenses intercepted several Israeli missiles, which targeted the Damascus International Airport, on Saturday night. The Syrian SANA news agency reported that a military source confirmed the Israeli attack on Damascus International Airport. The military source said “Our air defenses responded to an Israeli missile attack on Damascus International Airport and…
A Singapore Airlines pilot has been stood down after he allegedly failed an alcohol test on the morning he was due to fly an international flight. The airline was forced to cancel the flight from Melbourne to Wellington in New Zealand on Saturday morning and the return flight the same day. An airline spokesman confirmed…
Airlines across the region canceled more than 100 flights on Saturday as Super Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines and was set to disrupt travel from Hong Kong to Japan. Cathay Pacific said in a statement it’s canceling all flights in and out of Hong Kong on Sunday beginning at 2:30 a.m., and wouldn’t resume…
Runway is closed until further notice at East Midlands Airport. UPDATE East Midlands Airport now reopened. UPDATE The aircraft is now off runway, inspection in progress. UPDATE All pax now offloaded from FR9387 BNC-EMA and nosewheel tyres being changed in situ on runway before a/c will be moved to stand for luggage offload & inspection. The…
