The Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder of crashed PIA #PK8303 A320 (reg. AP-BLD) arrived in BEA’s headquarter in Paris Le Bourget. A coordination meeting was held this morning with Airbus & CFM engines experts. Then technical work started in the BEA lab in the presence of president of AAIB. Today, the French Civil…
It’s a possibility that a bird strike brought down the Canadian Snowbird that killed one pilot and seriously injured another. On 17 May 2020 the Snowbirds air demonstration team was scheduled to depart Kamloops, BC to reposition to Comox, BC as part of Operation INSPIRATION, an operation undertaken by 431 (AD) Sqn to travel around…
A 41-year-old Air France pilot died in the crash of its aerobatic plane. The departmental fire and rescue service of Aude was alerted of the crash of an aerobatic plane which occurred on the runway of Carcassonne airport, France. According to reports, the Pitts S2 had risen in the air just seconds, before diving vertically…
Naheeda Khaskheli, one of the three domestic workers injured in the Karachi plane crash, died of her burn injuries at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. On May 22, 12-year-old Naheeda Khaskheli made her way to Model Colony, where she was working as a domestic helper. That day, as Naheeda waited in the street with her…
Christopher Nolan said that he and his crew blew up a real Boeing 747 for “Tenet” because it was “more efficient” than practical effects using miniatures or CGI. In an interview with Total Film magazine, director Nolan said: “I planned to do it using miniatures and set-piece builds and a combination of visual effects and…
A German engineer on the first flight carrying European workers back to China has tested positive for coronavirus as an asymptomatic carrier, local authorities said Sunday. The man was on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to the northeastern city of Tianjin which landed with around 200 passengers, mainly German workers and their families. Tianjin authorities…
The Irish low-cost company plans to lay off a quarter of its pilots in France and offers wage cuts of up to 20%, as of this year, for pilots and 10% for flight attendants. According to several confidential documents that French radio RTL was able to obtain, Ryanair made a proposal. The airline has offered…
On Saturday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to rise from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be sent toward the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. Hurley’s and Behnken’s lift-off at Kennedy is scheduled for 19:22 UTC. The mission, called Demo-2,…
Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept US Air Force B-1B strategic bombers over the neutral waters of the Black Sea, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday. The US Air Forces in Europe and US Air Forces Africa Command issued a statement earlier on Friday that two B-1B Lancers conducted a long-range,…
SpaceX had just conducted yet another static fire test of the Raptor engine in its Starship SN4 prototype launch vehicle on Friday when the test vehicle exploded on the test stand in Boca Chica, Texas. This was the fourth static fire test of this engine on this prototype, so it’s unclear what went wrong vs.…
A pilot flew from London to RAF Valley because he wanted to go to the beach. A Pilatus PC-12 registration N412MD departed Fairoaks to fly to RAF Valley. RAF Valley was closed (bank holiday Monday) with work in progress scheduled on RWY19 barrier and families on the periphery of the airfield. At 1250L the ac…
Lightning struck an An-124 landing from Paris Vatry to Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The An-124 cargo board of Volga-Dnepr Airlines received a lightning strike during the approach to Krasnoyarsk, Russia on Tuesday, May 26. The aircraft sustained damage to its nose cone while flying through lightning and a thunderstorm. The Volga Dnepr Airlines An-124 (RA-82078) is currently…
