Larry Page, Google co-founder, has been secretly testing an electric autonomous aircraft in New Zealand, as part of a new flying car start-up. Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk of Silicon Valley has visions of their Cora aircraft forming the basis of airborne taxi service in the coming years, as the electric aircraft is intended for use…
Flight BS211, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, operated by Bangladeshi Airline US- Bangla, veered off the runway and crashed on landing at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport after a raging fire on Monday afternoon Killing 50 people. Of the 50 people killed, 31 died at the airport and nineteen in hospital according to local police. 22…
Saudi Arabia is to buy 48 Typhoon fighter jets from BAE Systems for £ 5bn, at the end of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s UK visit, raising hopes of completing a long-delayed multimillion-pound deal, with the signing of the memorandum of intent, when he met Gavin Williamson, the UK defence secretary. BAE shares closed up…
The Aseman Airlines, a twin-engine turboprop, flight EP3704 en route from Tehran at 04:30 GMT, to the south-western city of Yasuj, crashed near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province an hour later. Sixty-six people, two security guards, two flight attendants and the pilot and co-pilot were on the board are feared to have been…
The Saratov Airlines, An-148 from Russia, en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural Mountains, has crashed after taking-off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 65 passengers and six crew on board. The airlines vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near Argunovo, about 50miles ( 80km) sout-east of Moscow. There are reported to be no…
Pope Francis has made history by performing a wedding ceremony for two flight attendants on board a plane between Cities in Chile. Paula Podest Ruiz 39 and Carlos Ciuffardi Elorriga, (41) had been married before a civil service but asked Pope to bless their marriage. The Pontiff asked the couple “Do you want me to marry…
The Pegasus Airline, flight PC8622 passenger plane skidded off a runaway and was teetering on a cliff edge after skidding off the runway in northeast Turkey narrowly avoided plunging into the sea saved by the mud bank while landing at Trabzon Airport on the Black Sea coast on Saturday night. All 162 passengers and 6…
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…
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…
Six people have died after a single-engine seaplane crashed into the Hawkesbury river near the suburb of Cowan , New South Wales, 30 miles north of Sydney, Australia. Police divers have so far recovered six bodies from the wreckage, 13m of water. The casualties included an 11-year-old boy, the pilot and four British nationals. The…