The Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, has received the major component assemblies for the first A320 that will be produced in the U.S. The 27 aircraft delivered from the facility thus far have been A321s. This marks another important milestone for the manufacturing facility, which began production in July 2015 and is equipped…
A British Airways flight due to take off from Heathrow to the US had to be cancelled when a bird found flapping inside the cockpit could not be removed by crew. Efforts to remove the blackbird over several hours culminated in airport ground staff using a recording of birds in distress in an attempt to…
A Man has died on board a transatlantic flight that diverted to Shannon Airport today despite the best efforts of crew members who performed CPR for over an hour. The 88-year-old, who was travelling with his wife, have fallen ill about three hours into flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta. The flight was almost three hours into…
A Jet Airways flight collided with another aircraft before take off today afternoon. The Jet Airways flight #9W603 was scheduled to fly from Delhi to Srinagar and suffered partial damage in the incident. According to information available online the scheduled departure of the flight #9W603 was 2.50 pm. The right wing of the Srinagar-bound Jet…
The airlines have been forced to apologise after accidentally flying a passenger 3,000 miles in the wrong direction. Lucie Bahetoukilae, who speaks no English, was intending to catch a plane to Paris and was horrified when she landed in San Francisco. United Airlines have said sorry for the ‘horrible failure’ to correctly check Ms Bahetoukilae’s…
