Russian airliner with 224 crashes in central Sinai, Egypt

A Russian Airliner Kogalymavia, flight KGL9268 Airbus A-321, which took off from the Red Sea resort Sharm el-Shiekh on its way to St Petersburg’s Pulkovo Russian airport, has crashed in central Sinai at 06:51Moscow time (03:51GMT) with more than 217 Russian tourists including 17 children and 7 crew on board. Egyptian authorities located the wreckage…

Engine 3 fallen off the plane with 426 passengers landed safely

Mahan Air, an Iranian Boeing 747, with 426 passengers on board, had just departed from Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, when a piece of  engine number three came off and hi the body of the plane and made an emergency landing. The pilot returned to the airport immediately and safely landed the plane just after 7:15am local…

Flyby shares flying high

Flybe, a British low-cost regional airline and largest regional airline in Europe, based in Exeter, recorded a 10 per cent increase in passenger numbers  to £2.4 million during the second quarter and 13 per cent rise in sales. Investors bought shares  to send share value up 4.11p to £81.36p despite a 1 per cent fall…

Pilot dies in mid-air on American Airlines

The American Airlines Airbus 320 flight AA550 Phoenix to Boston with 147 passengers and 5 crew had to be diverted to Syracuse New York on Monday 5th October 2015 as the pilot dies mid-flight and a cool headed co-pilot lands the plane safely at 7am.. The pilot appeared ill during the flight, prompting the diversion…

American Airlines resume flights after computer glitch

American Airlines was forced to ground US flights on 17th September 2015, after a computer malfunction led to an outage. American Airline said it had fixed the problem, which it did not disclose but was investigating the cause. American Airlines flight are once again being allowed to head to airports in Dallas, Miami and Chicago.

Battle of Britain aircrafts in a flypast

A fleet of Battle of Britain aircrafts including 40 Spitfires and Hurricanes took part in a flypast to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the aerial struggle. The biggest in one place since war, took off from Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex, then flew to airfields linked to the battle of Britain which was pivotal moment…

Plane crash kills two in Columbia

A small Twin engine plane carrying crew members from a Tom Cruise movie “Mena” crashed on Friday 11th September 2015, at 5:30 local time, while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin, in cloudy and foggy conditions in the town of San Pedro de los Milagros in the Columbian mountains killing two people aboard…

Air India Airbus 320, in emergency landing at Delhi, 5 injured

Air India flight AI 405  Airbus 320, flight from Varanasi to Delhi, India, with 150 passengers and crew, after  a hydraulic failure due to which Airbus 320 had to land in emergency situation at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, as smoke was seen from under carriage and pilot opted for evacuation. Reports said that some passengers…

Cessna plane made an emergency landing on Swedish highway

The pilot of a private Cessna plane has made an emergency landing on a highway 27, near Boras in southwestern Sweden, according to Johan Ljung police duty officer.  No one was injured. The Pilot Philip Woods of Boras aviation club said quoting Shakespeare “It’s much ado about nothing, I had run out of fuel even…