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British Man Posed for Photo with EgyptAir Hijacker While Still on Plane

Seif Eldin Mustafa hijacked an EgyptAir flight on Tuesday morning shortly after it left Cairo by producing a fake suicide belt and forcing the pilot to divert the aircraft to Larnaca airport in Cyprus. At some point during the hijacking, 26-year old Ben Innes from Leeds, England, decided to snap...

Rossiya Airlines, Aeroflot Group’s Newly Merged Regional Carrier, Begins Flights

Rossiya Airlines, Aeroflot Group’s newly merged regional carrier, announces it has commenced flights. The new Rossiya’s first flight was completed on 27 March, marking the beginning of the Spring-Summer 2016 Season. This season Rossiya will fly to a total of 81 destinations, including 54...

Czech Airlines And Airbus Sign Purchase Agreement For Seven Airbus A320 Neo Aircraft

Czech Airlines and AIRBUS S.A.S. signed a new agreement based on which Czech Airlines will acquire seven new Airbus A320neo aircraft from the manufacturer. The aircraft will be added to the Czech Airlines’ fleet around 2021. The new agreement replaces the original contractual relation of the parties and settles all commitments of Czech Airlines thereto. In turns, the new Airbus...

EgyptAir A320 hijacked

An EgyptAir flight from Alexandria’s Burg Al-Arab airport to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Tuesday by a passenger reportedly wearing an explosive belt. A hijacker informed the pilot of flight MS 181 he was wearing an explosive belt, the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. The Airbus A320 had 81 passengers, the ministry said. Cypriot authori...

Russian official calls for Boeing 737 ban

In the wake of last week’s crash of a Flydubai jet, a Russian official has called for banning Boeing 737s from the country’s commercial passenger routes, according to a report in Izvestia, a Moscow-based newspaper. A member of Russia’s Civic Chamber, Artem Kiryanov, has asked the country’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) to ban the popular airplane. He accused Boe...

Cathay getting closer to first A350 delivery

Completion of Cathay Pacific’s first Airbus A350-900 is into the home straight, with the aircraft’s first flight test on Easter Friday (European time). Airbus said the aircraft, MSN 0029, which currently wears the test registration F-WZFX and is expected to take B-LRA once handed over to Cathay, made it maiden flight on March 25. “The aircraft will now enter the final phase...

Air India flight makes emergency landing at Mumbai airport after engine emits smoke

A Hyderabad-bound Air India flight made an emergency landing at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport after smoke was detected in the undercarriage, according to IBN Live. All 120 passengers on board were evacuated immediately and the main runway of the airport closed. Airport officials said around 7.30 am, when the flight was preparing to land, smoke was detected and it made a...

First-time flier mistakes emergency exit for bathroom

A first-time airline passenger in China caused a major flight delay after accidentally deploying the aircraft’s inflatable evacuation slide when she was looking for a restroom. According to Shanghaiist, the incident occurred on Friday afternoon on state-owned China Southern Airlines flight CZ3456 from Chongqing to Shenzhen. The plane had just finished boarding and was ready for takeoff wh...

ATC tower giving wrong aviation weather information to pilots

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, as well as the Air Traffic Control tower, often provide wrong aviation meteorology information to pilots though meteorological observations and reports for air navigation have a direct link to aviation safety. Talking to this daily, the pilots said they constantly got misleading meteorological information from the service providers. “Tower i...

Air India to add 20 planes to its fleet

The 20 planes will include a Boeing 787, six Boeing 737s for Air India Express and 13 ATR aircraft to improve regional connectivity. Air India Ltd will add 20 planes to its feet in the coming fiscal year to expand its international and regional footprint, a spokesperson said on Monday. The airline, together with its subsidiaries, has a fleet of 135 aircraft—the largest in India. The...

Woman Put in Plastic Cuffs, Banned for Life By British Airways After Walking Around on Plane

Hair stylist Bridget Nhire has been banned for life by British Airways after getting up to stretch her legs through a flight from London to Dubai. Bridget Nhire, 33, was left in tears when she was handcuffed and escorted off the flight after the passenger behind her complained that she kept walking around. …Ms Nhire, from Uxbridge, said: ‘He was telling me to sit down and I said...

Pilot smashes into seven runway lights, keeps on flying

A passenger plane captain kept flying without alerting Auckland air traffic controllers even after smashing into seven runway lights, sending debris flying. The Chilean LAN Airlines captain lost his bearings taking off from Auckland before correcting himself, an investigation has found. The lights, standing some 30cm off the ground, were wrecked when the Airbus A340 carrying 1...

Ace pilots belly land passenger jet in Kazakhstan, all 116 passengers safe

Kazakh pilots safely landed a passenger plane without the use of its front wheels after a malfunction in the aircraft’s front landing gear on Sunday. The incident took place when the Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakh airline ‘Bek Air’, which had departed from Kyzylorda, was landing at Astana International Airport on Sunday morning. The pilots realized the front wheels wer...

Qatar Airways in sports focus

Qatar Airways has signed a three-year sponsorship of Team Qatar Airways and Official Airline Sponsor to the Beach Polo Cup Dubai, commencing 2016 through to 2018. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheik Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum for a second consecutive year, the Beach Polo Cup Dubai will take place 1-2 April and brings together polo enthusiasts from around the world, tog...

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