A large fire has broken out near the Qantas terminal at Sydney Airport. Airport fire crews were called to fuel storage depots next to the tarmac after 7pm today after a factory on Coward Street in Mascot went up in flames. Authorities have more than 18 crews on the ground made up of 70 fire…
According to UK climatology expert Stephen Burt (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading), the mean sea level barometric pressure at Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 mb (30.99”) at midnight GMT Sunday night (7 p.m. EST). Not only is this a record for Heathrow, beating 1047.3 mb from February 7, 1964, but it’s also the highest barometric…
Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 that the Iranian military shot down, an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad. Iran’s Tasnim news agency also reported the authorities were prepared for experts from France, Canada and the…
Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft at Toulouse-Blagnac airport. The test crew comprising of two pilots, two flight test engineers and a test flight engineer took off initially at around 10h15 on 18 December and conducted a total of 8 take-offs over a period of four and a…
A Delta flight slid off the pavement Friday morning at Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, an airport spokesman said. Delta Flight 1114 was taxiing from the airport terminal when its nose wheel dropped off the taxiway pavement. The aircraft that slid off of Taxiway Juliet at taxi speed: Delta 1114 to Detroit with 129…
A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport after an apparent engine fire. Video recorded by a passenger early Thursday morning showed sparks coming from right engine. United said the plane experienced a mechanical issue. The airline issued the following statement: United 1871 from Newark, New Jersey…
Emergency services reported no injuries or aircraft damage, ascertaining the jet had landed on a non-operational runway. An IrAero Superjet 100, en route from Sabetta, the Tyumen Oblast, Russia, performed a charter flight #SU95 to airport Domodedovo in Moscow. No casualties were reported, and the plane sustained no damage, according to preliminary data. The Superjet…
A woman has been arrested after walking though Miami International Airport in nothing but dark blue underwear in a surreal episode. She was first spotted strolling past baggage claim, singing aloud to herself. The woman proceeded to remove all items of clothing, exit the airport building and mount a police car before being taken into…
A flight attendant has been seriously injured after falling from the door of a parked plane. Finnair flight attendant has been hospitalized after falling from an aircraft. The A320 was parked at Helsinki airport when the flight attendant apparently opened the aft door and tumbled to the ground. He is not in a life threatening…
A large fire caused planes to be evacuated and flights to be diverted at Alicante Airport. Pictures showed clouds of smoke covering Alicante Airport in southeastern Spain where a fire raged for more than half an hour. Buildings were evacuated and travellers are still facing severe delays to their journeys as as of 3.30pm…
Security camera video shows for the first time that Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 was struck by two missiles fired from an Iranian military site about eight miles away, according to a report. The New York Times reported that it has verified the footage, which helps explain why the Boeing 737-800’s transponder stopped working seconds before…
London’s Heathrow airport has deployed a system designed to block drones entering its airspace following a string of recent attempts that threatened Europe’s busiest travel hub. The airport, classified as a flight restriction zone by authorities, is now using a product manufactured by France’s Thales SA to detect and identify drones. The French company declined…
