NEWS Underwater search for missing #MH370 suspended
The underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370 has been suspended nearly three years after the plane vanished without a trace over the Indian Ocean, according to a joint statement from Chinese, Australian and Malaysian officials. The three countries had been leading the search for #MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing…
Eurowings A330 flight #EW117 to Cologne makes emergency landing in Kuwait over bomb threat
A Germany-bound Eurowings passenger flight from Oman landed in Kuwait on Sunday over a bomb threat but no explosives were found on board, authorities said. Eurowings said there were 287 passengers and 10 crew members on board the flight, which was being flown by SunExpress on its behalf. The plane (reg. D-AXGF) from Salalah…
EMERGENCY An air collision was avoided over Belgium on the night of 31 December to 1 January
An air collision was avoided above Belgium on the night of 31 December to 1 January, between an Egyptian A300 cargo and an Air France A320 with passengers on board. The Directorate General of Belgian Air Transport (DGTA) confirmed the incident this weekend, after the Flemish newspaper VRT deredactie echoed it in its columns.…
VIDEO Middle East Airlines flight makes emergency landing after passenger assaults air hostess
An airplane operated by Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, made an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul after a passenger assaulted an air hostess. The MEA jet was heading from Beirut to London when the man attacked the stewardess and started hitting her. A brawl erupted aboard the plane when another passenger…
ALERT JAS 39 Gripen jet Crashed at Hat Yai Airport, Thailand during airshow today at 0940 LT
The 35-year-old pilot was flying a Swedish-made JAS 39 Gripen jet. Thailand’s national Children’s Day is celebrated yearly on the second Saturday of January. Footage of the accident captured shrieks from a startled crowd as the jet took a nosedive and crashed near the airport’s runway, releasing fiery plumes of smoke. “One pilot was killed…
BREAKING Was the crash of Egyptair #MS804 related to an iPhone and an iPad in the cockpit?
Investigators found a disturbing parallel between the initial alerts and the location of a phone and a tablet in the cockpit. An iPhone 6S and an iPad mini 4 and four perfume bottles including two aerosols were in the cockpit. So many apparently innocuous objects that are at the heart of the French investigation about the…
