A back wheel and part of the braking system fell off a Delta Air Lines plane during takeoff from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport last week, Israeli television reported Sunday. Worse, the debris "plunged down onto the runway" and was left there for some five hours, during which 10 further flights took off from the same runway, because a warning system highlighting the danger was d...
A plane caught fire during takeoff at McCarran International Airport on Sunday afternoon. A McCarran spokeswoman identified the plane as Allegiant Air flight 516 to Fresno, Calif. The plane was on the ground when it caught fire. A Clark County Fire Department crew responded to the airport at 1:18 p.m. The blaze was small and quickly extinguished, according to the department. No one was...
Expect an ever increasing number of direct flights connecting global metropolises with second- and third-tier mainland cities you may never have heard of, as the Chinese middle class's growing appetite for air travel puts more mainland airports on the map for airline companies. Xi'an to Sydney, Chengdu to Osaka, Shenyang to San Francisco ... those are but a few of the direct routes bein...
As many as 62 pilots of Jet Airways and Air India have flown out of the two airlines in a little over one year to join other carriers, with a majority of them boarding the Rahul Bhatia-promoted IndiGo. While private carrier Jet Airways has lost 30 pilots in 15 months to budget carrier IndiGo, state-owned Air India has seen the migration of 32 pilots in the past one year, industry sources s...
Nine-year-old Snoopy and seven-year-old Miffy are working important jobs at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. However, instead of searching the baggage claim area for narcotics or banned produce, the two beagles are hunting much smaller prey: red imported fire ants. The Taoyuan International Airport Corp said the facility now has three beagles working to eradicate red-imported fire a...
The man whose nephew made the "find" has also made the extraordinary claim the aircraft part contained skeleton remains in the pilot's chair with the seatbelt fastened. The pair were said to be hunting for birds when they spotted the wreckage in Mindanao, the second largest island in the country. The uncle, named as Jamil Omar, an audio visual technician in his 40s, said h...
Lufthansa is stepping up its premium offering on flights to the Arabian Gulf as the region’s big three carriers raise the stakes in pampering passengers. The German flag carrier will introduce its “premium economy” class on all of its flights to the Gulf from October 25. It will also open a lounge at Dubai International Airport – Concourse D – the new terminal t...
Alto Aviation of Sterling, Mass., added to its line of premium cabin entertainment systems for business aviation, having reached an agreement with Innovative Advantage to use the latter’s AVDS nodes as part of the Alto audio/video solution under a private label. AVDS video distribution systems support video switching to multiple monitors in either standard definition or h...
Westjet Air Center, the only full-service FBO at South Dakota’s Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP), held the grand opening for its new facility. With a stone exterior and copper ceilings, the 5,000-sq-ft terminal included in the $1 million-plus project is designed to resemble a luxury home or hotel. The facility offers a flight-planning center, pilots’ lounge with a pair of sn...
Flight management provider Hadid International Services has expanded its network in Africa with the establishment of a new office for full supervisory capabilities at Djibouti International Airport. The unsettled political situation in the region, which has driven gains in the number of flights landing in and overflying the small African nation, prompted its Civil Aviation Authority to designate H...
It was after 11 p.m. on March 30, 2013, when the Alaska Department of Public Safety helicopter lifted off near Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, after rescuing a stranded snowmobiler. Freezing rain was changing to heavier snow, and visibility was decreasing. Within minutes the chopper had crashed, killing its pilot, a state trooper, and the person they’d been sent to rescue. Usuall...
Iran has successfully tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile, its defense minister said on Sunday, signaling an apparent advance in Iranian attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile arsenal. The Islamic Republic has one of the largest missile programs in the Middle East, despite a United Nations arms embargo, but its potential effectiveness has been limited by poor accuracy. S...
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Wright brothers, who changed the world when they took to the skies on a bleak winter day in 1903 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, is the familial support and devotion that enabled them to pursue wholeheartedly what sounded to most people back then like a delusional fantasy. David McCullough’s carefully crafted account, The Wright Brother...
A United Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration N417UA performing flight UA-519 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to Las Vegas,NV (USA) with 157 people on board, was descending towards Las Vegas when the crew reported they had no nose wheel steering and needed to stop on the runway. Emergency services were called to their stand by positions for the arrival. While the A320 was maneouvering for the...
RAF Northolt, London, which is used by the Queen is unsafe aviation report reveals The VIP airfield used by the Queen and Prime Minister is unsafe, according to a classified Ministry of Defence report obtained by the Telegraph. Dangers to “existing operations” at RAF Northolt, London, are so serious it “could not be licensed in its current form” by the aviation a...
Business-class only flights have, like most things, experienced the highs and the lows. Ten years ago several carriers emerged offering passengers travelling from European to American hubs low-cost business class comfort. Sadly the recession prevented Eos, MaxJet and Silverjet – which also briefly flew from London to Dubai – from really taking flight. In recent years, Hong Kon...
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has lashed out at 'lying' aviation officials at a rally against a third runway at Heathrow Airport, saying 'poisoned' air is killing residents in the area. Addressing hundreds of people gathered in London's Parliament Square today, Mr McDonnell, 64, declared the aviation industry has 'consistently lied' about expanding th...
As bushfire season gets under way, with houses lost in Victoria and a man charged with arson in NSW, Casa aims to keep skies clear for firefighting Anyone who flies a drone near a bushfire could face a $9,000 fine, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) has warned. As part of its “Don’t go there” campaign, the authority reminded people that unmanned aerial vehicles risk...
Airplane will support carrier's expansion plans 787 Dreamliner presence in Middle East continues to grow Boeing and Oman Air celebrated the delivery of the airline's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The airline ordered six 787-8s in November 2011 as part of its expansion plans. "We are delighted to receive our first Dreamliner which combined with Oman Air's awa...
Airlines revenue teams trying to come up with the next big ancillary product might have the answer right in front of them - inflight wifi. A study from Inmarsat, based on a sample of 6,000 European travellers who took a laptop, tablet or mobile on a flight, found that two in three (67%) would be willing to pay to get online at 30,000 feet. (Although 80% in total would use the service, s...
An airport on Mount Wutai near the city of Xinzhou, Shanxi province had in its first test run on Oct 5, which will be followed by a check of navigation equipment, lighting, and flight procedures by the civil aviation authority so that it could be open to traffic by the end of this year, giving the famous Buddhist holy site and world heritage site a real tourism boost. The airport cou...
