An unclaimed mobile phone found in the aircraft cabin of Jet Airways’ Delhi-Bangkok flight on Wednesday created a major scare. The crew of this flight #9W66, sent a distress message to Bangkok by “squawking” code “7700” after entering Thai airspace as this phone was suspected to be a bomb, said highly placed sources. Confirming this,…
Qantas has ferried extra fuel from Sydney to Auckland on a Boeing 747-400 as part of efforts to minimise disruption due to fuel shortages at the airport. Airlines have been battling restricted fuel supplies at Auckland Airport since Sunday, after a pipeline which connects a refinery to the Wiri Oil Services facility near the airport was damaged,…
Pilots working for the travel group Thomas Cook will stage a strike on Saturday as part of a dispute over pay. Their trade union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), confirmed the strike after five days of talks failed to resolve the dispute. A strike on 8 September was the first by pilots at the…
JustPlanes has filmed half a dozen Los Angeles Airport programs in the past 25 years. In this edition we capture this very neat landing/takeoff sequence by 2 Delta Classic aircraft! For the full 3 hour film featuring 300 takeoffs & landings visit http://www.justplanes.com/us51.html
UPDATE Mexico City airport resuming operations from 16:00 local time. UPDATE Mexico City airport has suspended operations until infrastructure is completely inspected. Mexico City airport is being evacuated. Operations stopped at Mexico City Airport after 7.1 earthquake, all flights on hold or diverting.
A SpiceJet Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway on landing and got stuck in mud at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Tuesday evening. All 183 passengers on the SpiceJet flight are said to be safe. The airline and airport authorities immediately carried out an emergency evacuation following the mishap. According to the initial reports, emergency chutes were deployed…
In a major scare at Mangalore airport on Tuesday, a Dubai-bound passenger’s power bank was found to have a suspicious clay-like object in his check-in baggage. The flight is question was an Indigo Airlines aircraft plying directly from Mangaluru to Dubai. “IndiGo’s alert security screener staff at Mangalore caught a suspect carrying alleged cellphone bomb…
From March 24 2018 customers will be able to fly direct from Heathrow Terminal 5 to the Seychelles, making British Airways the only airline offering a non-stop service from the UK. Scattered across the Indian Ocean and famed as some of the most idyllic islands on the planet, flights will take to the skies twice-a-week…
The Israeli Air Force intercepted what it believes to be an Iranian-built drone, sent by the Hezbollah terrorist organization, that attempted to cross into Israeli airspace on Tuesday, the army said. UPDATE The Iranian built reconnaissance drone took off from the Damascus airport. The military said it intercepted the incoming unmanned aerial vehicle, but was still…
Footage of an incident leaked online on Tuesday shows accidental rocket fire from a Russian strike helicopter hitting close to parked cars. The incident came to light on Tuesday after footage of the misfire was published online. The Russian military declined to disclose when and where it happened, but denied reports that it was during…
After dark on September 16, Salt Lake City residents observed a number of strange lights in the sky. Several videos snapped by stunned witnesses show the lights zooming through the night sky. The unusual behavior of the strange light formation prompted speculation they could be shooting stars or even extraterrestrial objects. According to local media…
Ryanair shares fell 3 percent in early Monday trading following its announcement late on Friday of plans to cancel between 40 and 50 flights a day until the end of October. The company says it is trying to deal with a backlog of staff leave which must be allocated before the end of the year.…
