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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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.
Lufthansa flight #LH543 from Bogota to Frankfurt had to land at Manchester Airport after a woman gave birth on board. The Airbus A340 (reg. D-AIFC) landed at 13:15 local time and is scheduled to refuel and take off in about one hour to Frankfurt.
Travellers were evacuated from Perth Airport this afternoon after an alarm was evacuated. Hundreds of flight passengers stood in the car park of the domestic airport while the alarm was investigated about 2pm. A Perth airport spokesperson confirmed the alarm sounded after someone activated a “break glass” emergency system. It was deemed a false alarm…
JustPlanes film of New York JFK Airport from 1998 with so many airlines and airplanes that are no longer around. For the full 2hr film http://www.justplanes.com/ClassicAirports.html
China is defending last weekend’s encounter between two of its fighter jets and a U.S. military surveillance plane over the East China Sea. U.S. military officials say one of two Chinese J-10 fighters flew under a U.S. Navy EP-3 plane at a high rate of speed Sunday, then slowed down and pulled up directly in…
A Royal Air Force Typhoon based in Romania has been launched as a response to Russian aircraft operating near NATO airspace over the Black Sea. Operating from the Romanian Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta on the Black Sea coast, the RAF Typhoon responded to Russian Federation Air Force TU-22 Backfire strategic bombers heading south…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK617 from Istanbul Ataturk International Airport to Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport was forced to divert to Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport today due to a bomb threat. The Boeing 777 (reg. TC-JJR) diverted to Algiers today after the Turkish company received a message of a bomb on board the plane from a…
