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...
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...
Contracts worth £372m to help with the training of Typhoon and Tornado jet pilots will secure 470 jobs at RAF Valley on Anglesey. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) cash means in-service support for Hawk training aeroplanes will continue at the site until at least 2020. These are used by the UK armed forces to prepare pilots before conversion to frontline jets. The deals secure 700 UK jo...
Four startups have been selected to be part of the aircraft manufacturer's business accelerator, in Bengaluru. European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is helping startups enter the aerospace ecosystem through its business accelerator Airbus BizLab, which has offices in Toulouse in France, Hamburg in Germany, and Bengaluru in India. The Bengaluru office, which opened in November 2015,...
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...
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...
The A350-900 version of the A350 XWB will offer better fuel efficiency and additional nautical miles by 2020. After conducting the successful maiden flight of its first A350-900 for Cathay Pacific last week, Airbus Group SE is now looking forward to further improve the aircraft’s performance in order to make it more competitive in the market. Earlier today, the aircraft manufacturer...
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...
The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 03/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average by “days to cover.” There are a number of ways to look at short data, for example the total number of shares short; but one metric that we find...
Set foot into Chanel's latest pop-up store here, and you'd swear you were at a real airport. A really stylish airport, let me add. For 12 days, On Pedder's sprawling one-storey space at Scotts Square has been transformed into an airport-themed plaza by the French luxury house. Run by the uber chic "Chanel Airlines", customers are treated to a VIP-only airport termi...
The U.S. Air Force is requesting information from industry on technologies that could produce lower-cost engines for future subsonic “Group 5” unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the largest vehicles in the fleet with sizes and capabilities similar to the General Atomics Reaper or Northrop Grumman Global Hawk. The request is linked to the Air Force’s Low Cost Attritable Aircraft...
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...
Polish police say they have detained 21 people in connection with a false bomb threat that caused 800 people to be evacuated and four flights to be diverted from an airport near the capital. The bomb threat occurred late Sunday and affected Warsaw’s Modlin Airport, which is north of the capital and serves budget airlines. Dawid Marciniak, a police official, said Monday that police trac...
From now there is no more flights Air France (or HOP!) to take you from Strasbourg to Paris/Orly. Well, there are not many people are sad of this situation. You will find an online petition on Change.org asking to keep the commercial activity between the two airports. But the document only obtained 248 signatures on behalf of that decision. On the social network, you can also find some tweet...
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...
The excavation of a Spitfire from its wartime crash site has set the standard for future aviation digs, England's historic environment body has said. The plane crashed in Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire in November 1940, killing Pilot Officer Harold Penketh. Historic England said involving forces veterans in the dig made it "an exemplar for future such endeavours". Veteran Gary...
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...
A battle over background checks for Uber drivers at the world's busiest airport comes as cities like Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, consider more thorough screenings to prevent criminals from getting behind the wheel. Uber has objected to the Atlanta airport's plan to use fingerprints to check criminal records of its drivers, saying its own record checks are sufficient. But the distr...
The Osaka Prefectural Police and the transport ministry are investigating Saturday’s fatal plane crash at Yao Airport as a case of professional negligence resulting in death. According to the ministry and the airport, a four-seater Mooney M20C bound for Yao left Kobe Airport at 4:03 p.m. but crashed while attempting to land at about 4:20 p.m., killing all four occupants. The plane went...
Irish Olympian Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe has hit out at Aer Lingus after he was ejected from a flight for having 'fencing equipment'. The 24-year-old, who competes in the modern pentathlon, had been travelling to a competition as he steps up his preparations for this year's Rio Olympics when he was asked to leave his flight. Commenting on Facebook, he wrote: "I dedicate my...
A new iOS and Android app can help you prepare for airplane emergencies. You know that part of the flight most people don't pay attention to, when the flight attendants are waving their arms? Well — and this might come as a shock, so bear with us — that part is pretty important. Those strange hand movements and weird demonstrations are meant to teach you what to do in case of...
