Sixteen people have died after a C-130, US military plane crashed in the LeFlore County, the southern state of Mississippi 100 miles north of Jackson, the state capital, at around 16:00 local time ( 21:00 GMT) on Monday 10th July 2017. All the victims were on the Marine Corps aircraft died according to the LeFlore…
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he favoured disinvestment of the loss-making state-owned airline Air India, to Private sector conglomerate Tata Group, who previously owned the airline 64 years back when it was nationalised. Tata Group’s new chairman N Chandrasekaran has held informal talk with the government for buying a 51 per cent equity majority…
Forty flights have been cancelled in Phoenix, Arizona, as it is too hot for the planes to fly. The weather forecast for the US city is predicted at 49ᵒC on Tuesday, which is higher than the operating temperature of some planes. American Airlines announced it was cancelling dozens of flights scheduled to take off from…
A Booker helicopter crashed in Buckinghamshire injuring three men with “life-threatening” injuries. Police and fire crews were called at the Wycombe Air Park in Clay Lane, Booker, just after 09:40 BST. According to South Central Ambulance Service, the aircraft has three men on board, ended up on its side. An ambulance spokesman said one man…
Airlines are flouting existing EU law and taking law into their own hands with no one to stop them. Two Easyjet Passengers were removed from an overbooked flight at Luton Airport flying to Catania in Scilly on Monday last week, the day after a United Airlines passenger was dragged off a plane in US. The…
A Vietnamese descent passenger of United Airlines was forcibly dragged, to make room for airline staff, from an overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky. and left with blood dripping from his face. The video of United Airlines passenger creates a furore in China as over 270 million viewers watched in Weibo Chinese equivalent of Twitter…
China HNA Group, headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China, a large tourism and domestic airline operator chaired by Chen Feng, has struck £32.4bn ($40bn) of deals in the last two years announcing plans to buy Singapore logistics provider CWT for $1bn. CWT provides warehousing and logistics services to the commodities industry. With the acquisition of CWT,…
Behold the entrepreneur, he is the crakerjack, a modern day enigma, Amol Yadav (41), an ex-pilot of Jet Airways in India, assembled a six-seater aircraft on the terrace of his three-bedroom flat in Charkop, Kandivali West, Mumbai India, has been given a window of opportunity to display his creation at the Make in India…
Air India London-bound flight carrying 231 passengers and 18 crew on board from Ahmedabad had to be escorted by fighter jets after it lost contact with air traffic control while flying over Hungry. For over two hours Hungarian, German and Belgian pilots shadowed the 787 Dreamliner, around 8:15 am. When it failed to make a…
RAF Typhoons from Coningsby in Lincolnshire, intercepted a Romanian civilian plane with three crew after the aircraft lost communications, according to the Ministry of Defence. The Romanian Saab 340 plane travelling from Bucharest was escorted to Birmingham International Airport at about 7:30 GMT, where the runway was closed for half an hour. One Plane from…