The Sriwijaya Airplane flight SJ182 with 63 people on board which resumed commercial flight on 22 December 2020, but crashed into the Java sea on Saturday had passed an airworthiness inspection only last month according to officials. Primary findings reveal the aircraft was still functioning and intact before it crashed. Indonesian police have identified its…
The Indonesian Sriwijaya Air jet SJY182 carrying 62 people, departed from Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 14:36 local time (7:36 GMT) on Saturday disappeared from radars four minutes into its 90-minute journey to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province west of the island of Borneo. Sriwijaya Air founded in 2003, is a local budget airline which…
The UK Lockdown could hit the borrowing balloon for the 2020/2021 financial year past £450 billion and predicts the latest coronavirus restrictions could cost the country £400 million every working day. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a new £4.6 billion plan to help businesses through a new lockdown, including one-off top-up grants up to £9,…
Amid pandemic, Amazon has confirmed the purchase of 11 second-hand used Boeing 787 jets as it continues to expand its worldwide delivery empire. This is the first time Amazon has actually bought planes as all others in its fleet are leased. Delta Airlines sold seven of the planes, and the other four were sold…
Germany’s Lufthansa is airlifting 80 tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables from Frankfurt to Doncaster, and Sheffield airports in a Boeing 777, as firms seek to beat the lorry chaos at seaports. In 2019, Frankfurt airport, a major center in Europe that receives goods from food producers all over the continent including France, Netherlands, and…
In 2021, Rolls-Royce is rolling out an electric aircraft calling it “the spirit of Innovation.” The company hopes the plane will break the world speed record for an electric aircraft by flying at more than 300mph. In September, Airbus unveiled three concept hydrogen-powered planes which could see an important deal signed with Germany, France, Spain,…
The Early period between 1917 and 1989, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottaman and Russian Empires yields an unstable political and economic order plagued by rival nationalism, Bolshevism and democracies that turn into dictatorships, unleashing the Second World War. In the latter period the US and the Soviet Union dominate one half of Europe…
After 20 months of grounding globally in March 2019, commercial passenger flights have resumed on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft for the first time, after Brazilian airline Gol resumed operations using the plane. The American company’s previously bestselling airplane was given the approval to return to the skies by US regulators US Federal Aviation Administration (FDA)…
A helicopter Eurocopter EC135 owned by Service Aerien Francais, a private company carrying out a rescue mission has crashed and fell from an altitude of 1, 800 metres ( 5, 900ft) in the French Alps, near the town of Bonvillard in the Savoir area killing five of the six people on board. The alarm was…
Picures by Laurence Nair British Airways 747G0CIVW , BA1978R, today at 2:!56pm retired after it landed at Dunsfold Aerodrome arriving from Cardiff airport, to start its new life as a TV and Film set prop.. The Boeing 747-236B with a full Boeing 747 cockpit, first class Business Class and economy seating all in great condition,…