The U.S. military on Thursday grounded its entire fleet of F-35 stealth fighters after one of the jets crashed during a training mission in South Carolina last month, officials said Thursday. The stand down affects more than 200 jets while an “inspection of a fuel tube” in F-35 engines takes place, according to a Pentagon spokesman.…
An Air India flight scraped a brick wall on takeoff Friday, leaving gashes along the under belly of the airliner’s fuselage and forcing it to make an emergency landing. The aircraft took off early Friday from Trichy in Tamil Nadu when air traffic controllers warned the pilots they may have hit the wall. The Boeing…
An F-16 aircraft has been completely destroyed after exploding at a Belgian military base, according to the country’s Air Force. Two people have reportedly been injured, and a second plane was damaged. “A fire was declared during maintenance work on an F-16” in Florennes, the Air Force wrote on Twitter, adding that the plane was…
A problem has occurred during the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague onboard. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 18 Alexander Gerst shared this photo of today’s aborted Soyuz launch taken from the International Space Station. UPDATE 17 According to reports, at 1st stage separation, there was structural…
A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit, Michigan, to Shanghai, China, was unresponsive, causing the plane to return back to the airport Monday. Upon landing at the airport, the passenger was declared dead. The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office said the passenger died of natural causes. The passenger was suffering from hypertensive…
Singapore Airlines is launching the world’s longest nonstop flight – nearly 19 hours in the air – from Singapore to New York. Singapore Airlines’ newest plane, the Airbus A350-900 ULR — for Ultra Long-Range — delivered last month, are handling the flights which will be the world’s longest nonstop air route (11,160 miles). The new…
The special flight to New York will be hosted by Tituss Burgess, who stars in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and will be staffed entirely by LGBT pilots and cabin crew. There’ll be a host of fun entertainment too including an on board DJ, Drag-Queen Bingo, Judy Garland singalongs, inter-seat speed dating and more. The flight will…
LIVE WIND MAP LIVE TRACKING MAP Hurricane Michael is now an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane and its outer rainbands are beginning to reach the coast. This is a life-threatening event for portions of the northeastern Gulf Coast. UPDATE #18A At 200 AM EDT (0600 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Michael was located by…
Four people were injured when a Sukhoi Superjet 100 skidded off the runway after a landing in Yakutia. The main landing gear of the aircraft broke during the incident, an emergency services representative told RIA. A total of 91 passengers, including seven children, were on board the Yakutia Airlines flight from the Siberian city of…
On 8 October at around 22.48 (local time) Boeing 747-400 from Guangzhou suffered a runway excursion. The flight #TG679 landed at runway 19R with 116 people on board. The main left gear left pavement and was stuck into grass under inclement weather conditions. “There was heavy rain upon landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and the aircraft experienced…
A passenger boarding bridge collapsed at the Islamabad International Airport on Tuesday injuring a man. It has been reported that no damage was caused to the parked aircraft at the sight that belonged to a foreign airline. The cause of the collapse has not yet been determined. The new airport, which is designed as “Y”…
The Dutch air force scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to escort a flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam after an onboard fight broke out with an aggressive American passenger, authorities said on Saturday. “A 29-year-old American man became aggressive after being asked by a purser to return to his seat,” said Joanna Helmonds, a spokesperson…
