Investigators searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 are confident that they have found the plane’s “most likely” final resting place. The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – the country’s national science agency – believes the wreckage is in an area 25,000 sq km north of the original 120,000 sq km…
Two Anchorage-based fighter jets intercepted a pair of Russian bombers Monday night off Kodiak Island in what an Air Force commander called the first such flight seen near Alaska in nearly two years. Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, head of both the Alaskan Command and the Alaska NORAD Region, said Tuesday that the detection and intercept…
Hi-Fly Airbus A340 (reg. CS-TQZ) suffered a taxiway excursion at Istanbul Ataturk Airport today. There were no passengers on board the Airbus 340 which landed from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft is belonging to a Portuguese airline. The plane landed at Ataturk Airport for maintenance and then headed to the hangar when…
On April 6, a federal air marshal left her loaded service weapon in the aircraft’s bathroom of Delta flight #DL221 from Manchester to New York JFK. A passenger found the weapon and returned it to a member of the flight crew, who returned it to the air marshal. The Air marshal didn’t report the incident…
JAI234 AMS-YYZ returned to Amsterdam after pressurization problems following a tailstrike on departure of runway 18C. The Boeing 777-300ER dumped fuel before landing and was parked on a remote stand. No damage visible from the outside.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a runway incursion at Toronto Pearson International Airport today. Safety board spokesperson Chris Krepski told they have sent a team of investigators to the airport to follow up on an incident that happened at the intersection of a taxiway and runway around 11 a.m. today. United flight…
Airbus has delivered the first-ever A321neo. The latest generation aircraft powered by CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines was handed over to U.S. airline Virgin America, an all-Airbus operator, at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany. The A320neo significantly reduces noise levels, generating only half the noise footprint compared to previous generation aircraft. Equipped with fuel-saving Sharklet wingtip…
Passengers on a flight from Aero Contractor, from Port Harcourt to Lagos in Nigeria on Tuesday, reported panic on the aircraft when the cabin was invaded by smoke. According to the passenger, 20 minutes after the take-off, smoke appeared onboard and for 35 minutes passengers were praying, screaming and panicking. The passenger also reported that the…
Flight #9W2882 with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi. A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight with 60 passengers and 5 crew members on board had a nose wheel malfunction today when it landed at the IGI Airport in Delhi.…
A Thomson flight to Bristol was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot’s windscreen cracked at 30,000ft. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-OOBB) from Gran Canaria was forced to divert to Porto, Portugal after the damage meant the pilots had to drop from 30,000ft to 10,000ft last night. “The cockpit windscreen was cracked so had to…
Amidst the Syrian Civil War, Syrian Arab Airlines began Airbus A340-300 operations on April 12th, with a flight to Dubai as RB515. According to Flightglobal, the aircraft was welcomed in Damascus with a ceremony including the Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammoud. YK-AZA is a 16 year old Airbus A340-313X that was originally delivered to Cathay Pacific…
Air France takes delivery of its second Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft (registration F-HRBB) leaves Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday April, 19 to Paris CDG. The Air France-KLM Group has ordered a total of 18 787-9s and seven 787-10s, with an additional 12 787-9s leased through AerCap. Air France’s Dreamliners accommodate up to 276 passengers, arranged…
