Emirates has announced it will resume non-stop services to Seattle (from 1st February), Dallas and San Francisco (from 2nd March). The addition of these three destinations will take Emirates’ North American network to 10 destinations following the resumption of services to Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Toronto and Washington DC. Flights to/from…
With four women pilots, Air India’s longest direct route flight landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru from San Francisco, flying over the North Pole and covering a distance of about 16,000 kilometres. The flight number AI176 left San Francisco on Saturday at 8.30 PM (local time) and arrived at 3.45 AM on Monday. The…
A new study shows how Covid-19 spread on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to Auckland, eventually infecting four people on-board. On September 28, Emirates Airlines flight 448 departed Dubai for Auckland with 86 passengers on board and a full complement of aircrew. The researchers say, at least four people were infected on the 18-hour flight…
On Jan. 11, the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft carrying out the company’s 21st commercial resupply services (CRS-21) mission for NASA undocks from the International Space Station, heading for splashdown off the coast of Florida about 12 hours later. This upgraded Dragon transports significantly more science back to Earth than possible in previous Dragon capsules and…
A Boeing 737-500 disappeared from radars shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. The aircraft reg (PK-CLC) was operating flight #SJ182 from Jakarta (CGK) to Pontianak (PNK) when it disappeared from radars about 5 minutes after takeoff. The Flight #SJ182 actually not emitted Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT). An Emergency locator transmitter (ELT) as equipment which broadcasts distinctive…
DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5 billion, charges it with fraud conspiracy over 737 Max crashes. The Department of Justice on Thursday said Boeing agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve criminal charges stemming from crashes of its best-selling 737 Max airplanes. “The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight…
A truck collided with a Wizz Air Airbus A320neo at Gdansk Airport, Poland. The incident took place on Thursday morning. The Wizz Air Airbus A320neo (reg. HA-LJB) was being prepared for departure from Gdańsk to Stockholm. The truck supplying the plane with water, hit the fuselage of the aircraft. There were no passengers on board…
On Tuesday, a Chinook from 28 Squadron based at RAF Benson made a precautionary landing in a field near Wantage following a mechanical issue. The aircraft soon sank into the field, likely due to the extended period of wet weather that UK experienced recently. RAF engineers deployed to the site to assess the mechanical issue…
Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair slashed its annual traffic forecast by around five million passengers, describing the latest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions imposed by the UK and Irish governments as “draconian.” Amid the rapid spread of the highly contagious new variant of Covid-19, the carrier said it would operate “few, if any” flights in the region…
A message threatening to fly a plane into the Capitol building to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was broadcast on air traffic control frequencies on Monday afternoon. The FBI and FAA are investigating the message that was heard by multiple air traffic controllers in New York, according to CBS. The threat, delivered…
Trump supporters heckle Romney, chanting ‘traitor’ on flight to D.C. Under dimmed cabin lights on a flight from Salt Lake City on Tuesday, a woman bellowed a rallying cry to a group of Trump supporters headed to D.C. to rally behind the president, urging them to tell fellow passenger Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) “what we…
