Pilots landing at certain South African airports may be forced to do so without an essential ground-based system used to guide planes safely towards the ground in low visibility. This is according to various notices to airmen (NOTAMs), including one issued on Monday 10 August. According to the notice, the Instrument Landing Systems (ILSs) used…
Heathrow’s passenger numbers were down 89% year-on-year in July, figures published by the airport show. Just 867,000 people travelling through the west London airport last month, compared with 7.754 million in July 2019. The latest monthly data reflects a slight uplift in passenger traffic since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Demand was down 95%…
Royal Thai Navy Fokker F-27 (1202, built 1984) received major damage during a nosegear-up landing at Narathiwat (VTSC), Thailand. Pilots previously alerted rescuers and firefighters to prepare before landing on runway 02. The aircraft came to a safe stop on the runway and no one was injured. The aircraft came from U-Tapao carrying 11 crew.
In Chinitna bay, a curious juvenile bear liked the plane. The pilots said she was always curious about airplanes and it was probably the third or fourth encounter with her. The first few times she would just push the tail down, but pilots were able to chase her off. Occurred on August 17, 2017 /…
Maurice Ferrier will never forget the day of his 95th birthday. This former butcher, who had never boarded a plane, dreamed of going “to see what’s going on up there”. “If I’m fine at 95, I absolutely want to do it”. And he did. Maurice Ferrier wanted to celebrate his birthday in a way that…
Rolls-Royce will carry out extra inspections on some of its Trent XWB engines which power the Airbus A350 airliner. Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday that the issue would not cause significant customer disruption or material cost, as it affected a small number of XWBs of a certain age. The Trent XWB-84 engine is set to be…
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group have taken no-pay leave of varying lengths to help the company cope with the collapse in air travel due to Covid-19. In addition, more than 1,700 employees, including ground staff, pilots and cabin crew, have signed up for volunteer positions and jobs…
One of the victims of Friday’s Dubai-Kozhikode flight crash, who was declared positive for COVID-19 after his death, had survived the deadly coronavirus in May and tested negative again before flying, his flat mate here said. Sudheer Variyath, 45, succumbed to his injuries a couple of hours after the plane crash that killed 18 people…
A Jet2 Boeing 757 suffered an engine issue due to bird strike on takeoff from Manchester. The Boeing 757-200 (reg. G-LSAN) was performing a test flight from Manchester with no passengers and low fuel. The aircraft took off from runway 05L when the right hand engine emitted a loud bang and streaks of flame possibly…
A United Airlines flight was searched on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport after a passenger made a bomb threat on board. An unidentified passenger on United Flight 2304 arriving at the New Jersey airport just after 4.30pm had threatened there was a bomb on board, authorities said. ‘The crew reported one of the passengers…
A Hi Fly A380 flew over the beaches of the Algarve in Portugal, frightening tourists who were on the beach. In the footage took by a tourist at the Falésia beach and Albufeira beach, people are seen running in fear of the presence of the large plane, which flies at low altitude. The route of…
A plane travelling from Nice in France to Oslo in Norway landed just minutes after the mandatory quarantine was imposed, meaning all 158 passengers needed to self-isolate for 10 days. The Scandinavian company SAS plane landed minutes after France officially became part of Norway’s “red list”, a Norwegian minister confirmed. Flight #SK4700 landed few minutes…
