A selection of turbine/propeller-powered planes less likely to be seen at your local airport. Features Antonov An-12 and An-26, Piaggio P.180 Avanti (what a beauty!), Swearingen Merlin, Airbus A400M, BAe ATP and Lockheed C-130 Hercules. A nice mixture of civil and military, ancient and modern.
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday the crash of Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300 plane a year ago was not due to mechanical failure, local daily Gulf News reported. The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority said Sunday that “there were no aircraft systems or engine abnormalities up to the time of the accident,”…
No one was injured when two airplanes clipped wings at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Saturday nighty. Air Canada Flight #AC1713 made contact with a LOT Polish Airlines plane, #LOT46, at the gate of Terminal 1 at about 10:18 p.m. The inbound Air Canada Rouge plane, a Boeing 767-300, had arrived from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and…
Air Canada Airbus A320 flight #AC614 bound for Halifax declared an emergency due to flaps issue and returned to Toronto Pearson for a safe landing. Video by Syed Shamail Haider Shah.
Watch an Insel Air MD80 power up from Maho Beach as its powers down the runway at St Maarten Airport for a great liftoff. Part of our 4 and a half hour film on SXM Airport. Full details at http://www.justplanes.com/stmaarten.html
(C) PlaneMadNews At least ten people have been hospitalized after an American Airlines flight from Athens, Greece experienced extreme turbulence prior to landing in Philadelphia. American Airlines Airbus A330 (reg. N276AY) flight #AA759 landed safety at 3:10 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport. There were a total of 299 people onboard the flight – 287 passengers…
