A MIG-28K fighter jet the Indian Navy overshot the runway at Goa Dabolim airport in Vasco, India and crashed today. The pilot a trainee, safely escaped by removing the canopy. The airport located inside the naval base INS Hansa resumed after a brief disruption with some flights being delayed. The fighter aircraft failed to take off…
Month: January 2018
A fifty-year-old Ryan air Polish national passenger, fed up with waiting to leave a plane in Spain, took the emergency exit and was waiting on the wing with his hand luggage down before perching on the wing’s edge. His flight FR8164 from Stanstead London to Malaga on New Year’s Day had been delayed one hour on…
India will launch 31 satellites, on 10th January 2018, which includes an earth observation spacecraft Cartosat from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, South India. The rocket is schedule to be launched at 9:30am IST 4:00GMT. The 28 satellites from the US and the five other countries and one nano and micro satellite from India besides…
The UK has welcomed in the new year with spectacular firework displays with over 10, 000 fireworks lit up the sky in every colour, as part of a 12-minute display with London eye as the centrepiece. Big Ben chimed to welcome in 2018 after been turned back on part way the restoration work. London Ambulance…
Richard Cousins (58), chief executive of British catering giant Compass Group, from London, his two sons William (25) and Edward (23), fiancée Emma Bowden (48), her 11-year-old daughter Heather and the Australian pilot Gareth Morgan (44) has died in a New Year’s Eve after their seaplane plunged into a the Hawkesbury River, near Cowan, 30…