Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac at the international airport in Nouakchott and threatened to set it on fire, the government news agency reported Thursday. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident and it was not immediately clear how…
The Ministry of Defence is temporarily grounding all Royal Navy Hawk jets while investigating a crash during a training exercise that left two pilots seriously injured. The crew from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose at Helston, Cornwall, ejected from the jet during the incident on March 25. The two-seater Hawk T1,…
The terminal at the Pensacola International Airport has been shut down Thursday morning as authorities investigate a “potential threat.” “Pensacola Police and Airport staff are currently investigating a potential threat on site,” the airport says in a release. “At this time the airport terminal is closed to passenger traffic. Please stand by for more information…
After Uruguayan Air Force helicopter crash, 300 doses of Pfizer vaccine were lost. The Air Force helicopter that had departed this morning from Carrasco Airport and was transferring Pfizer de Rocha vaccines, suffered a “mechanical failure”, which led to an “emergency landing”, near Km. 184 of Route 9, as indicated to Montevideo Portal, from the…
A Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet has crashed in Cornwall. It is understood that both crew ejected and nobody has died. Military sources confirmed the crashed jet is from 736 Naval Squadron based at Culdrose. Devon & Cornwall Police said: “Emergency services are currently in the St Martins area of Helston following reports of a…
Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter was significantly damaged when a round fired from its underbelly 25mm gun pod exploded. An ammunition round that exploded following its discharge from a Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, earlier this month caused damage to the stealth fighter’s fuselage, according to…
A video posted to social media shows the end of a fight among airline passengers, the kerfuffle reportedly happening as they got off the plane in Phoenix, the Arizona Republic. It happened on American Airlines Flight 2275 from Los Angeles on Sunday. The plane arrived at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 6:28 p.m. Passenger…
Guatemalan authorities have closed Guatemala’s international airport as volcanic ash blanketed planes and runways on Tuesday. Guatemala City’s La Aurora International Airport was temporarily closed after unfavorable wind conditions carried ash from the nearby and active Pacaya volcano its way, according to Guatemala’s Civil Aviation Authority. The Civil Aviation Authority announced the closure on Twitter,…
NASA’s newest rover recorded audio of itself crunching over the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration. As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot’s six wheels as…
Lufthansa A380 (reg. D-AIMD) left Frankfurt Airport this morning to Teruel, SPain for long term storage.
One pilot has died while the rescue mission is currently underway for the other pilot after their two Taiwan Air Force F-5E fighter jets collided and crashed into the ocean. On Monday afternoon (March 22), two F-5E fighter jets are believed to have collided and crashed into the ocean off the coast of Pingtung County…
Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have confirmed that no international spectators will be permitted at the event. The organising committee said it had been prepared to welcome guests until recently, but an upsurge of Covid-19 cases around the world had now made this impossible. The event itself has been delayed by…
