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…
Shenzhen Airlines Flight ZH9209 sent out emergency code 7700 when dropping nearly 6,000m in 2 mins, some 25 mins after takeoff from China’s Shenzhen en route to NW China’s Xi’an on Sun. The plane had taken off from Shenzhen, a city bordering Hong Kong, and was headed to Xi’an in north-west China. The flight dived…
Pakistan has announced that it will allow the full resumption of all types of international flights to and from the country’s airports from Sunday. The announcement comes weeks after Pakistan partially reopened its airports for domestic and international commercial flights. Earlier this week authorities allowed to resumption of domestic flights from all of the country’s…
Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe and First Officer Akhilesh Kumar were both killed in the crash of Air India Express flight #IX1344. Captain Sathe was a decorated air force officer who, according to a family member, had survived a military plane crash in the 1990s. First Officer Kumar leaves behind a pregnant wife who is expecting…
The Air India Express plane, carrying 190 people from Dubai, on Friday touched down near a taxiway that is around 1,000 metres from the beginning of the runway at the Kozhikode airport before breaking up into two pieces, according to AAI. The pilot of the ill-fated flight #IX1344 could not sight the runway in the…
A Canadair water bomber has crashed in Portugal while taking part in the extinction of fires in the Lobios forest, on the border with Spain. The CL-215-1A10 (reg. EC-HET) has crashed on a hillside while firefighting near Lobios, Ourense, Spain. UPDATE One of the pilots has died, the other is in critical condition. Both…
Air India Express Flight No IX1344 from Dubai to Calicut skidded off the runway. The Boeing 737-800 (reg. VT-AXH) has crashed on landing in heavy rain at Calicut, India from Dubai. UPDATE Death toll rises to 18 and more than 100 injured. UPDATE The chairman of India’s DGCA reported 16 people have lost their lives…
