Four passengers including an infant survived a Eurocopter EC135 helicopter crash landing in a built-up area, avoiding overhead power cables and building before it hit the street and slid into bushes outside a Methodist Church in Philadelphia. “The helicopter taken off from outside Philadelphia is believed to have encountered mechanical problems during the flight” a…
How a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe, with race to beat competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced and forced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight, Peter Robinson, award-winning reporter for Bloomberg, looks…
The pilot ejected from a British F35 Stealth jet which crashed shortly after takeoff from HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier, at 10:00 GMT over international waters, during a routine flying operations according to the Ministry of Defence. An investigation will focus on potential technical o human error.
A MD-87 jet heading to Boston carrying 21 people crashed near Houston Executive Airport, all escape with no injuries on early morning Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed the incident in a field in the southeast corner of Walker County, which is not too far from Houston Executive Airport/ The youngest person on…
A private single engine Pilatus PC-12 plane bound for the island of Sardinia, piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu, 68, after take off form Milan’s Linate airport, has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian City of Milan, killing all eight people on board. The crash set the office block and several…
Biden administration announces new travel policy effective from November. re-opening to passengers from UK, EU and other nations. From November all foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated and undergo testing and contact tracing. The tough US restrictions on travel was placed in 2020, by Trump…
https://youtu.be/PRtSGb-17O4 A wing walker and a pilot screamed for help as they were rescued from a plane that crashed into the sea during Bournemouth Air Festival. The young female acrobat was still strapped onto the top of the plane when it crash-landed into harbour and flipped upside down. In about a minute the pair managed…
A Philippine military transport plane a C130 Hercules, carrying 92 troops from Cagayan de Oro, northern Island of Mindanao , has crashed in the northern Philippines. Jolo Island at 11:30 local time (03:30GMT). Flames and smoke emerged from the wreckage as forty five died but 40 people survived and were taken to a nearby military…
Ryanair commercial flight, FR4978 carrying 171 passengers on board, from Athens (Greece) to Vilnius (Lithuania) was diverted to Minsk (Belarus) for several hours, because of a bomb scare on Sunday in order to arrest a dissident journalist ex-editor of the Nexta group, Roman Protasewich, on board. The plane turned east to Minsk shortly before…
Two pilots are alive an din hospital after a Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet crashed in Cornwall according to Ministry of Defence two pilots had ejected from 736 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Culdrose on the Lizard Peninsula before it crashed into a field. Cronwall Air Ambulance which responded to reports of the crash in…