NEWS DHL plane suffered tailstrike yesterday at Lahore
A Boeing 767 of DHL suffered tailstrike on landing yesterday at Lahore Airport.
NEWS Air France-KLM to buy 31% of Virgin Atlantic
Air France-KLM is buying almost a third of Virgin Atlantic, leaving Sir Richard Branson’s parent company, Virgin Group, with a minority stake in the airline he founded. Air France-KLM is taking a 31% stake, worth £220m, in Virgin Atlantic as part of a four-way joint-venture with US partner Delta. Virgin Group’s share will fall from…
BREAKING Atlasjet A320 radom and windshield seriously damaged by hail at Istanbul
An Atlasjet flight from Istanbul to North Cyprus was damaged by hail and had to return. The Airbus A320 departed from Istanbul Ataturk Airport when it reached 5,000 feet and was damaged by hail storm. The windshield cracked and the radom was damaged. The plane returned to Istanbul Atatürk Airport with 121 passengers on board. The footage of…
VIDEO FANTASTIC AIRPORTS : St Maarten ; Saba ; St Barths
JustPlanes new film featuring 3 amazing airports in a film thats 4 and a half hours long. The first hour is spent at SABA with its shortest runway as well as ST BARTHS with a hill right in front of the runway. The rest of the program is filmed from some superb locations at ST…
NEWS Port Authority Board Approves $54.4 Million Runway Project at LaGuardia Airport
The Port Authority Board of Commissioners today authorized $54.4 million to rehabilitate Runway 4-22 and associated taxiways at LaGuardia Airport to extend their useful life and ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration standards. Work on the 7,000 feet long and 150 feet wide runway will take place during nightly airport closures and extended weekend runway…
EMERGENCY Female passenger hitting the wall of the plane forces United #UA898 to emergency landing
An unruly passenger on United flight 898 from Houston to New Orleans forced pilots to make an emergency landing. Just 25 minutes into the flight, passengers say a woman seated in the back row started yelling and hitting the wall of the plane. “I hear a woman screaming in the back of the plane, you…
NEWS Two Air India pilots grounded after they forgot to retract A320 landing gear during entire flight
Air India has grounded two pilots who forgot to retract aircraft landing gear after take off and then flew all the way from Kolkata to Nagpur with the wheels out. While the flight’s destination was Mumbai, flying with the wheels out meant flying low and more fuel burn due to which the plane had to land…
NEWS Boeing 747 pilot take pictures of hypersonic weapon flying right over his plane
Christiaan van Heijst, 34, Dutch Pilot of a Boeing 747-8 Freighter took these breath-taking photos during a flight from Hong Kong to Baku in Azerbaijan on Sunday on an airway heading over the Himalayas. Van Heijst’s freighter aircraft was flying at over 32,000 feet when the missile blasted past overhead. Christiaan said: ‘Suddenly we noticed…
NEWS At only 30, this woman is the youngest Boeing 777 captain in the world
Indian pilot Anny Divya claims to have become the youngest woman in the world to captain a Boeing 777. The 30-year-old’s achievement has been widely reported in India, where she flies for commercial airline Air India. “From a child, I always wanted to be a pilot, although I didn’t have much guidance on how to…
NEWS Airbus delivers its 100th A350 XWB
When China Airlines received its seventh A350 XWB today, the carrier took possession of the 100th jetliner delivered from this newest family in Airbus’ industry-leading widebody product line. The milestone aircraft is an A350-900 version, joining China Airlines’ growing A350 XWB fleet – adding to the line-up of widebody A330s and A340s flown by the…
VIDEO Gravel Runway Takeoff in the Cockpit of the Q-400
JustPlanes filmed AIR ICELAND in the cockpit of the Dash 8 fleet on routes across Iceland and to Greenland. Here you see the Dash 8-Q400 on a departure from the gravel runway at Kulusuk Greenland. The full film is nearly 5 hours long and can be found at http://www.worldairroutes.com/airiceland.html
BREAKING German military attack helicopter Tiger crashed in Gao, Mali
In north Mali, a German military helicopter crashed. The Eurocopter EC665 Tiger was deployed in the country under the UN peace mission a spokesman said. Both pilots were killed during the crash, which occurred in Gao region.
