United Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight UA900 from London Heathrow diverted to New-York Newark airport due to copilot broken leg. He had broken it the day before, not during the flight. Pilots planned to fly to Newark as it didn’t have enough crew to fly to San Francisco according to regulations state to fly the distance…
History was once again made on St Helena today as the first large passenger jet aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 (ZS-ZWG), touched down at St Helena’s new Airport shortly after 12.00 noon. This is the actual Boeing aircraft which will serve the St Helena/Johannesburg route. As planned, British Airways (operated by Comair) brought in this ‘Implementation…
British Airways Boeing 777 flight #BA74 from Lagos suffered a bird strike this morning on approach to Heathrow Friend of mine operating a B777 @ LHR this morning "met" a bird on approach #avgeek #crewlife #boeing @airlivenet pic.twitter.com/UEKCOWJpwM — Joe Smith (@Joeyoneear) April 19, 2016
The first ever Boeing 787 to land at Bristol Airport – A Thomson Airways 787 landed today (19th April 2016) at 11:10 as part of a campaign at Bristol International Airport (BRS/EGGD) to promote Long Haul Flights from Bristol with Thomson starting Summer 2017!
The Australian managed search for MH370 is now examining what looks like part of its cabin as well as an engine cowl. One of the striking things about today’s ATSB Update No 1 on its examination of what are almost certainly pieces of wreckage from missing flight MH370 is that two of them may have…
A SpiceJet flight (SG487) from Mumbai to Kolkata was stranded at the Nagpur airport on Sunday night due to a technical snag. SpiceJet does not have regular service from Nagpur so there is no support or ground staff here. The plane therefore had to wait at Nagpur till a Spicejet Engineer could check it. A…
An Emirates flight made an emergency landing at Larnaca airport on Monday after a passenger fell ill. The A380 aircraft was headed to the UK from Dubai when it asked for permission to land at Larnaca airport at around 6pm due to a medical emergency before departing for Manchester at 8pm. This was the first…
Finnair celebrated their inaugural flight between Edinburgh and Helsinki on April 18th. The journey, which takes less than 3 hours, connects Edinburgh with Finnair’s portfolio of destinations in Asia as well as other parts of the world that the airline operates to. The airline now operates 3x flights per week between the two capitals using…
A four-month-old baby girl died on board a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from London to Hong Kong over the weekend, leaving the parents inconsolable. According to Apple Daily, a Chinese-French couple took Cathay’s CX256 flight from Heathrow Airport on Sunday along with their infant daughter. The family was planning to take a transfer flight to…
The new Airbus Asia Training Centre (AATC), a joint venture owned 55% by Airbus and 45% by Singapore Airlines (SIA), was officially opened in Singapore today. The opening ceremony was hosted by Fabrice Brégier, President and Chief Executive Officer, Airbus and Goh Choon Phong, Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Airlines, in the presence of S Iswaran,…
Jet2 flight LS232 was on route into Leeds from Barcelona and had 2 failed attempts at landing due to wind. The first attempt was an unstable approach and the second was wind shear at 500ft causing a +25kt speed increase which caused the second go around. Aircraft diverted to Doncaster due to low fuel.
Etihad Airways and Avianca, one of Latin’s leading airlines have announced a codesharing agreement to expand services from Abu Dhabi to South America. Under this agreement made between the two airlines, Etihad Airways will place it’s “EY” IATA code on Avianca operated flights between Bogota and London Heathrow & Madrid Barajas, whereas Avianca will place…
