An elderly male passenger has died on board a Emirates flight EK21 from Dubai to Manchester on 20th June 2016. He is said to have been ill before boarding in Dubai and Greater Manchester Police confirmed the death was not suspicious. The Boeing 777 landed at Manchester Airport at 7:30am this morning and was met…
Thirty four passengers and six crew members on a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380-800, the biggest commercial airliner in use, flight from London Heathrow, have been hurt after it was hit by turbulence. The aircraft carrying 378 passengers on board at the time but managed to land safely at Kuala Lumpur. Medical staff and senior Malaysia…
EgyptAir fight from Paris to Cairo made two sharp turns as it swerved 90ᵒ left and then 360ᵒ to the right and plunged to 15000ft into the Mediterranean Sea, and debris found in hunt for missing jet. A Greek frigate discovered two large floating objects in the Mediterranean sea following a sea Captain’s reported seeing…
An EgyptAir flight MS804, Airbus A320 with 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board which left Paris at 23:09 local time on Wednesday 17th May 2016 (21:09GMT) and scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian capital at 3:00 local time has disappeared from radar 10miles (16km) into Egyptian air space. A search operation is underway…
Emirates Airline, founded in 1985, reported a record net profit of £1.31 bn ($1.9bn) for 2015-16, a robust performance despite negative effects of strong US dollar, economic slow-downs in oil-producing countries. For the year up to March 31, Emirates have reported a net profit of £1.31bn (Dh7.1bn) up 56 per cent compared with 2014-15, as…
Vijay Mallya, 60 year old Indian businessman and politician who owned India’s biggest liquor company and a private jet, an Airbus, and launched Kingfisher an airline to match his style and flamboyance. Kingfisher went from boom to bust. Lalit Modi, their ownership of IPL teams and jet setting lifestyles. Mallya made his escape to London…
A pilot was caught after a flight with a large bag of marijuana in his pocket and also failing a drugs test who worked in one of the companies associated with the Kazakstan Airlines company. The Air Astana captain had recently touched down in the A320 from Moscow to Almaty – the former soviet republic’s biggest…
A Spitfire flew over Southampton Water and the site of the Super marine factory in Woolston, where thousands of The World War Two fighters were manufactured. A flypast to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spitfire’s first flight has taken place over the Hampshire coast. The plane took off from the airport shortly before…
Emirates Airbus A380 jet has made history, the world’s longest non-stop scheduled commercial fight from Dubai to Auckland, covering 14,200km (8, 824miles) on March 2, 2016. The return flight to Dubai let at about 19:30 local time 8:30 GMT, reducing the travel time by 3 hours. Both flights were around 17 hours and 15 minutes.…
London City Airport sold to Kuwait Investment Authority, a state-owned Sovereign fund, Borealis Infrastructure, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan fund, AIMCo, an American investment management company, Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by Sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the American private equity company who owned 75 per cent stake, and Oaktree…