Colombian airline Aer Caribe Boeing 737 cargo suffered a serious accident on the afternoon of Saturday January 28 during landing at the Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport in the city of Leticia, Amazonas. The Boeing 737-300F (reg. HK-5197) from the Bogota skidded off runway during landing. During the accident, the landing gears collapsed. Both engines…
Air Algerie flight #AH2700 from Algiers to Montreal was forced to divert to Toulouse (France) on Saturday Jan, 29 after a passenger died on board. The 67 year old passenger suffered a cardiac arrest during the beginning of the flight. The plane with 178 passengers on board diverted to Toulouse in France after 1 hour flight. The The…
Singapore Airlines A380 flight #SQ286 from Auckland to Singapore was forced to abort the take-off due to a fault with the nose wheel. About 300 passengers are stuck on a Singapore Airlines plane at Auckland Airport after its takeoff was delayed because of a potential fault. The flight had failed to take off due to…
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a sweeping ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations has prompted an outpouring of grief, shock and anger around the United States. Donald Trump’s executive order to close America’s borders to travellers from some Muslim-majority countries caused chaos on Saturday, as multiple people who had flown to the US were…
A passenger is facing up to 10 years in jail after he allegedly attempted to open a door of a Sydney-bound Qantas A380 above the Pacific Ocean on January 17. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Qantas A380 was cruising at 39,000 feet from Los Angeles, more than an hour away from Sydney when a passenger left his seat and…
Unite has announced that its cabin crew members working for British Airways mixed fleet will take a further six days of strike action at the start of February. Members of the union are continuing a dispute over what the organisation brands “poverty pay”. Unite will call members out on strike on February 5th-7th and 9th-11th.…
A Grumman mallard aircraft stalled and crashed into the swan river in Perth yesterday as a part of Australia Day celebrations, killing the pilot and his passenger at around 16:30 local time.
The figure, released this week by its operating authority, represents growth of 7.2 per cent on 2015, when 78 million passed through its doors. Dubai’s rise has been astonishing. The airport welcomed just 16 million fliers in 2002, meaning total growth in the last 16 years stands at 423 per cent. While it sees more…
President Donald J. Trump takes off for the first time in Air Force One today to head to Philadelphia.
