Get a captain’s-eye view of the take-off and landing of the last flight of Qantas Boeing 747-400, courtesy of this GoPro camera, as VH-OJA flies from Sydney Airport to Wollongong’s Illawarra Regional Airport to enter retirement as centrepiece of the the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society museum.
Last year was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said on Monday. While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal…
Swiss International Air Lines will be offering a new service connection between Dublin and Geneva from the June 26th 2015 onwards. Swiss will operate four weekly flights to Geneva, with the flights marking a further step in the airline’s steady development of its services to western Switzerland.
Virgin Atlantic is doubling its flights between London Heathrow and San Francisco, by adding a second daily service from October 24th – and will be putting its newest aircraft on the route. Last year Virgin Atlantic announced it would add a second service to San Francisco five times a week for the summer season, starting…
The pilot of a medical helicopter was killed late Friday in a crash near St. Louis University Hospital, a spokesman for the St. Louis Fire Department said. Link
One of South Africa’s top helicopter rescue pilots has died while on duty fighting fires at Cape Point near Cape Town. The pilot – who has been identified as Bees Marais – was forced into a hard landing at Cape Point earlier on Sunday. He was flying a Bell 212 helicopter. Initial reports suggested that…
