Misfiring champagne cork grounds the plane

An Easy Jet Stewardess on EZY 8845 on its way from Gatwick, Britain to Dalaman, Turkey, was opening the bottle of champagne when the cork misfired and hit the ceiling of the plane which smashed the ceiling tiles and brought down the oxygen masks. After four hours into the journey the flight has to be…

Indian Budget airline IndiGo orders 250 Airbus A320neo

India’s largest airline by market share, IndiGo  on their 9th year, has finalised the purchase of 250 narrow bodied A320neo Family aircraft, signed on on the 69th Independence Day of India on the 15th August 2015. This historical aircraft purchase agreement was European Aerospace giant’s largest-ever order by number of planes in deal worth £17billion …

Indonesian passenger plane crashes with 54 on board

An Indonesian Trigana Air passenger plane ATR42 with 54 people on board, on route to Oksibil crashed at camp3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains Regency, in the east Papua, according to Airport Transportation Director-General Suprasetyo. The flight took off from the regional capital Jayapura for Oksibil in the south at 14:21 local time…

Airbus wins patent for a Hypersonic plane 4.5 speed of sound

Airbus’s Concord 2.0 jet, has won a patent for a hypersonic passenger plane which could be capable of flying four and half times the speed of sound and potentially fly from London to New York in an hour, the same time  as a train journey from London to Sunny Sand beaches , Flokstone in Kent. The…

Golden age of  Indian aviation

India’s largest  carrier, IndiGo,  run by InterGlobe Aviation, which started operations in 2006, now handling one in three passengers. If Airbus  projections are correct domestic Indian revenue will surpass other major markets with 9.5 per cent growth per year until 2033. InterGlobe aviation wanted to maximise  by planning an initial  IPO public offering later this…

Prince William East Anglia Air Ambulance pilot

The Duke of Cambridge Prince William has started his new job as an air ambulance pilot with the  East Anglian Air Ambulance division. He said he is feeling  nervous and wants to do the very best with his time to help people in his career. Former RAF pilot,  Prince William completed his civil aviation course in…

Duval beats Airbus to electric cross-channel title

French pilot, Hugues Duval, stuntman’s battery-powered aircraft beat Airbus’s attempt to be first to fly an Electric plane across the English Channel, 106 years after Louis Bleriot made his pioneering flight, taking 21 minute to fly across the water. Duval, owner of a small Brittany based aviation company called  Yankee Delta, said he decided to take-off…

BA diverted to Boston after man assaults woman

Massachusetts State police charged 48-year-old Darren Halliwell, from Aspull, a village in Manchester country, after an incident on a British Airways plane forced the captain to make an unscheduled landing. He allegedly assaulted a woman he was travelling with before clashing with cabin crew. British Airways flight 195, from London, heading to Houston, Texas had…

Turkish Airliner diverted to Delhi after security threat

“There was a bomb threat to the Turkish Airlines flight and therefore they decided to land it in New Delhi,” according to a spokesperson from the federal Central Industrial Security Forces. Turkish Airlines flight TK65 from Bangkok to Istanbul, made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi, after their crew spotted…