The low-cost Germanwings owned by Lufthansa, Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 crashed, between Digne and Barcelonnette in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. According to officials there are no survivors. Germanwings has been operating since 2002 as part of traditional Lufthansa’s response from rising European budget carriers serving mainly European destinations. The area…
HondaJet, achieved a breakthrough in aeronautics, the Over-The-Wing Engine Mount, was engineered and proven its innovative technology which breaks the conventional mould set by Aerospace industry, after more than 20 years of extensive research and development. This also give more spacious cabin, noise reduction, and increased fuel efficiency. The HondaJet’s engines are attached to the…
Sir Richard Branson , founder of Virgin Atlantic, took thirty years to venture into expanding relationship with Delta Airlines and improving their customer service. Virgin Atlantic this year started to make profit aided by their partnership with Delta Airline of the US, after three years of losses. It connected 10,000 passengers a month on…
US Hollywood actor Harrison Ford 72, has been injured in a small vintage plane crash in Los Angeles. Patrick Butler of the LAFD said a 911 emergency call at 14:20 (22:20 GMT) was attended a plane crash at Penmar Golf course in Venice, near the Santa Monica Airport, although most of the plane and its…
A Turkish Airlines from Istanbul flight TK 726 carrying 224 passengers, skidded after overshooting a runway amid dense fog in Nepal, forcing staff to evacuate the plane. Kathmandu’s Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal remained closed on 4th march morning after the accident, as the front landing gear collapsed, causing it to nosedive on the slippery…
A passenger airliner Delta MD-88 from Atlanta, has skidded off the runway and run past the airport perimeter fence at LaGuardia airport in New York City due to snow. Emergency officials were called to the airport at about 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) but no major injuries have been reported. According to Delta Air Lines,…
Three Red Bull stunt aircraft the “Flying Bulls” from Czech Republic, collided in mid-air on Thursday, while performing part of a three-plane inverted loop stunt at the Aero India defence expo Asian continent’s premier air show, in the skies above the Yelahanka Airforce in Bengaluru ( Bangalore) in Southern India. Two of these planes clashed…
A computer glitch which allowed transatlantic flights tickets to be bought for extremely low prices, forced United Airlines to cancel thousands of bookings. The glitch, first spotted by money saving site DansDeals, caused first and business class tickets sold through the airline’s Danish website to be drastically mispriced. For instance, a round trip from Heathrow to…
TransAsia ATR 72-600 Turboprop Flight GE235, a domestic low flying passenger flight, with 58 people on board, hit a bridge in Taipei Taiwan at 10:55 local time (2:55GMT) and plunged into the Keelung River. This crash claimed 23 lives and 16 suffered minor injuries as well as there being 30 people still unaccounted for. The plane…