Concorde had completed 25 years of successful flights whisking wealthy passengers from rock stars to diplomats to corporate titans – between continents flying twice the speed of sound. This is a tale of Concorde crash, the investigation into its causes and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future. Charles Lindbergh in his Spirit…
Simone Burns (50), a human rights lawyer who spat at a flight attendant and was filmed shouting at Air India cabin crew in a racist and foul mouthed tirade during a nine-hour flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow last November was initially served with 3, 25cl bottles of wine on the flight then refused to…
United Airline flight 4390 operated by regional arm United Jet , en route from Knoxville, Tennessee to `Houston, Texas made an emergency landing when two of its cockpit screens went blank mid-flight due to a cooling issue. the flight was subsequently diverted to Dallas /Fort worth Airport after the pilot announced that the flight had…
Iceland’s Wow Air has stopped all flights, stranding thousands of Passengers. Its website says Wow has ceased operations and cancelled all flights and passenger needing to travel should book with other airlines. The carrier which had been in funding talks with investors, flew from London Stanstead and Gatwick in the UK. Wow was founded in…
A South West Airline Boeing Max 8 aircraft without any passengers made an emergency landing in the US Orlando after experiencing an engine problem. The plane was heading to California for repositioning but made a safe emergency landing in Orlando. Southwest Flight 8701 departed from Orlando International at 2:50pm Tuesday, but was forced to return…
A British Airways flight BA3271 LCY-DUS operated by WDL Aviation left London City at 7:47am and destined for Dusseldorf in Germany has landed in Edinburgh by mistake, after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly. The passengers realised the error when the plane landed and the “ welcome to Edinburgh” announcement was made. The flight was…
Garuda Indonesia has scrapped its multi-billion –dollar order of 49 Boeing 727, Max 8, the first reported cancellation for the aircraft involved in the Ethiopian Airlines, and Lion Air crashes. Ikhsan Rosan of Garuda Indonesia revealed that it sent a letter to Boeing on March 14 asking to cancel its order of Boeing 737 Max…
Standard Boeing 737 Max 8 planes are not equipped with a angle of attack indicator or an angle of attack disagree light and cost extra. As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, in vain they lacked two essential safety features in their cockpits. Several airlines…
The US genuflected to global pressure and ordered grounding of Boeing 737 Max aircraft only days after insisting that the plane was airworthy despite two crashes in five months. Canada said it received “new data” on Ethiopian Airlines crash that made them think again and to ground the plane. The US ban was announced…
Europe’s aviation safety regulator issued a continent-wide ban on flights of Boeing 737 Max yesterday placing the aircraft manufacturer and US regulators on the defensive as they continue to insist that the plane was airworthy. Similar bar to the aircraft was also made by Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Egypt, China, Vietnam, New Zealand, Lebanon, Singapore,…