NEWS Dubai Al Maktoum To Hit Record-Breaking Numbers

VIDEO Impressive attemp to land a plane in high winds in Oklahoma

Attempting to land a plane in high winds in Oklahoma

Posté par AIRLIVE.net sur jeudi 31 mars 2016

NEWS Boeing is cutting 4,000 jobs

Boeing_logoThe aircraft maker said it should be able to achieve the job reductions, equal to about 2% of its worldwide staff, through normal attrition, voluntary buyouts and leaving open positions unfilled. “We’ll only use involuntary layoffs as a last resort,” said spokesman Doug Adler. Last month the company announced a plan to save money by cutting non-labor spending, supply chain costs and staffing levels.

VIDEO Singapore Airlines A380 SG50 livery – Takeoff at Manchester – Heathrow diversion

BREAKING Landvetter Airport (Sweden) evacuated after ‘two suspicious packages found’

NEWS Ryanair Expands Liverpool Routes!

VIDEO Antonov An-12 Up-Close Departure at Manchester Airport

NEWS British Airways bans female passenger for life ‘after mid-flight argument’

bridget-nhire-british-airways-lifetime-banA fashion stylist has been banned from flying with British Airways after a mid-flight argument over her getting up to “stretch her legs,”

Bridget Nhire from Uxbridge has said BA over-reacted after a minor argument on a flight from Heathrow to Dubai.

The 33-year-old said the dispute started after a fellow passenger complained she was getting up too many times to stretch her legs. “He was telling me to sit down and I said I have the right to get up and walk around for my health. Then the crew asked me to move to the front. They said you are being aggressive, we feel you may have had a little too much to drink. I had a drink but was not drunk. I had two glasses of wine with my meal. They strapped me to the seat and put me in plastic cuffs. I have bruises.”

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NEWS You May Check In To Your Next Flight On Facebook

10543_klmFacebook’s popular chat app Messenger has signed on its first airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, as the social network aims to turn the app into a one-stop shop for commerce, transportation, customer service, and more. KLM flyers will be able to automatically receive itineraries, flight updates, check-in notifications, boarding passes, rebook flights, and communicate with customer service all from Facebook Messenger.

NEWS Virgin Atlantic Route & Codesharing Expansion!

TRAVEL ALERT Planned industrial action at Australian International Airports by employees of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection

NEWS Norwegian Add’s 2 More B789’s To Orderbook!

ALERT New French #ATCstrike tomorrow, check with your airline

Short summary of tomorrow forecast (by Eurocontrol):

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Ryanair once again called on the European Commission to take action to prevent the strikes by French ATC unions, the 3rd time in 2 weeks and the 43rd time in 7 years.

According to the Irish low-cost, this latest ‘unjustified action’ shows that ‘a tiny French union’ can hold Europe’s single market (and open skies) to ransom thousands of flights from the UK are cancelled, and hundreds of thousands of passengers’ travel plans are disrupted.

Ryanair says that the European Commission’s failure to prevent ‘these repeated cancellations makes a mockery of the single European market’. Ryanair has repeatedly called upon the Commission to introduce measures to impact ATC strikes: to require French ATC unions to engage in binding arbitration and to allow Europe’s other ATCs to operate overflights over France while ATC unions are on strike.

The last French ATC strike, from March 20-22, caused more than 1,000 cancellations.

BREAKING Mozambique Debris Matches Boeing 777 flight #MH370 ATSB Says

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Examination and analysis of two parts found on the east African coast was carried out in Australia by international experts, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) announced in an update.

The Malaysian ICAO Safety Investigation Team has advised that:

  • the dimensions, materials and construction of both parts conform to the specifications of a Boeing 777 aircraft;
  • the paint and stencilling on both parts match those used by Malaysia Airlines; and
  • as such, both parts are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, and are almost certainly from MH370.

VIDEO Difficult Flybe Dash-8 crosswind landing at Manchester airport during #StormKatie

NEWS British traveller takes photo with #EgyptAir hijacker

VIDEO Three Volga-Dnepr IL76 Landings at Prestwick Airport this summer

BREAKING Hijacked EgyptAir flight landed in Cyprus

Aircraft hijacking Egypt Air Aircraft makes emergency Landing Larnaca Airport (Cyprus) with reports off hijacking.

Airline spokesperson says hijacked EgyptAir flight that landed in Cyprus was traveling from Alexandria to Cairo.

BREAKING Terminal Evacuated at Miami International Airport, Bomb Squad Responding


Authorities evacuated a terminal at Miami International Airport Monday afternoon.

Terminal H12 was reportedly evacuated around 4 p.m.

Airport officials said the they got a call about a suspicious package and are taking the proper precautions.

This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates as they become available.

VIDEO Superjumbo Airbus A380 impressive crosswind takeoff yesterday from Birmingham

VIDEO Fokker 100 landed without nose gear in Astana (Kazakhstan)

A Bek Air Fokker 100, registration UP-F1012 performing flight Z9-2041 from Kzyl-Orda to Astana (Kazakhstan) with 116 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Astana when the crew could not extend the nose gear and went around.

The aircraft needed to land on runway 22 without nose gear about 50 minutes after the first go around, the crew kept the nose as long as practicable before lowering the nose onto the runway. The aircraft came to a stop on the runway and was evacuated.

 

All 116 passengers and five crew members on board the Bek Air plane landed safely on sunday, with no injuries reported.

NEWS easyJet flight delayed for hours after woman claimed she saw ‘Isis messages’ on Iraqi passenger’s phone

easy-jetAn EasyJet flight from Vienna to London was halted just before takeoff on Saturday because a passenger believed the man sitting next to her might be an Islamic extremist, authorities said.

All passengers had to disembark the plane as luggage was searched after the woman raised the alarm yesterday.

The plane then took off after a delay of around three hours, but both the man and the woman in question were held for further questioning.

The man has subsequently been released, the AFP news agency reported.

EMERGENCY Norwegian #DY4464 diverted to Norway due to smoke coming from food ovens

A Norwegian aircraft that was on its way to Stockholm Arlanda Airport was forced to make an emergency landing at Stavanger in Norway this morning.

According to the Expressen report, the cabin was filled with smoke and the aircraft was evacuated upon landing.

Local emergency services in Stavanger tweeted around 11.45 that the situation was under control and that fire engines were not required at the scene.

“Because of smoke coming from food ovens, the pilots took the decision to land,” said Tonje Nass, press officer with Norwegian, to SVT.

VIDEO Jetblue making an emergency landing with nose gear not extend at Nassau Bahamas Airport

NEWS News: Malaysia Airlines unveils A330 business class seats

Malaysia Airlines has unveiled its first A330-300 aircraft fitted with the new Business Class seats at its Engineering Complex in Sepang.

NEWS News: Etihad expands Istanbul service

Etihad Airways will expand its services to Istanbul during 2016 with a new four times weekly service to Sabiha Gokcen Airport.

EMERGENCY Jetblue Flight 29 suffered nose landing gear issue at Nassau Bahamas Airport

JetBlue plane landing in the Bahamas’ Nassau airport this evening ran into trouble on the tarmac when the plane’s nose gear failed to function properly, according to an airport agent.
According to a statement from the airliner, JetBlue flight 29 from Washington National Airport to Nassau, Bahamas reported a landing-gear malfunction prior to arrival. 

 
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VIDEO World’s longest aircraft is ready for flight

VIDEO The first Air Force One is being resurrected by a company in Virginia

First Air Force One flies again

The first plane to be called Air Force One is back in the air. http://cnn.it/1pKjdaC

Posté par CNN International sur jeudi 24 mars 2016

ALERT Private plane makes emergency landing at San Jose International Airport after landing-gear collapse

Capture0A private plane made an emergency landing at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport on Thursday afternoon with four people on board who were able to walk away unharmed, airport officials said.

No one was injured when the landing gear collapsed on the Piaggio P180, according Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kentizer. Vidoe at the scene showed the small white plane sitting atop a pile of foam, and fire fighters and other authorities surrounding it.

VIDEO Cathay Pacific Airbus A350 first flight today at Toulouse

BREAKING Airk #W3101 to London Heathrow is declaring an emergency

NEWS JetBlue flight attendant who dropped two suitcases full of cocaine at Los Angeles turned herself in to authorities

ALERT Australian Investigators Say Mozambique Debris Is ‘Almost Certainly’ from #MH370

Capture40Two pieces of debris recently discovered along the coast of Mozambique are “highly likely” to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said Thursday.

An analysis of the parts by an international investigation team showed both pieces are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, Transport Minister Darren Chester said in a statement.

“The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” Chester said.

The discovery of the two pieces provide another piece of the puzzle into the plane’s fate, and bolster authorities’ assertion that the plane went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean. But whether they can provide any clues into exactly what happened to the aircraft and why is uncertain.

VIDEO SpiceJet surprised its passengers onboard with a pre-Holi bash

NEWS Missing British father texted from #Brussels airport he was ‘safe and fine’ before boarding Metro

3277B21B00000578-3504271-David_Dixon_from_Hartlepool_has_not_been_in_contact_with_his_par-a-52_1458729825196The British father missing since the Brussels bombings sent a message to his family telling them he was okay after the airport attacks – but has not been seen since another explosion ripped through the Metro an hour later.

David Dixon, 53, has not been in contact with his partner, Charlotte Sutcliffe, since the second attack was carried out and it is thought he was on the Brussels Metro at the time the explosion hit the Maalbeck underground station.
His aunt, Ann Dixon, said he sent her a message telling her he was okay after the airport attacks – before getting on the Metro to go to work. His partner, Ms Sutcliffe, is now among the many relatives of the missing now desperately appealing for information.

The British Prime Minister’s Office has said it is ‘concerned’ about one missing Briton following the Brussels terror attacks. Four Britons were injured in the attacks, three of whom are being treated in hospital, a Downing Street spokesman said.

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#OnThisDay in 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 is deliberately flown into the French Alps

1 year ago today, Germanwings Flight 9525 (D-AIPX) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Spain to Düsseldorf Airport, Germany. The Airbus A320-211 was carrying 144 passengers & 6 crew members at the time of the crash.

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Germanwings Flight 9525 took off from Runway 07R at Barcelona-El Prat Airport on 24 March 2015 at 10:01 am CET (09:01 UTC) and was due to arrive at Düsseldorf Airport by 11:39 CET (10:39 UTC).

The first picture of the doomed crew of the Germanwings plane taken at Germanwings HQ in Cologne Germany. Hero pilot Capt Patrick Sondenheimer (left) and co-pilot Lubitz along with the crew who where killed when Lubitz crash the plane into a mountain in FranceThe flight’s pilot in command was 34 year old Captain Patrick Sondenheimer, who had ten years flying experience (6,000 flight hours) flying A320s for Germanwings, Lufthansa and Condor.

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The co-pilot was 27 year old First Officer Andreas Lubitz, who joined Germanwings in September 2013 and had 630 flight hours of experience. Both pilots were German citizens.

 At 10:26 CET (09:26 UTC) the flight reached its cruising altitude of FL380. At 10:30 CET the flight was cleared direct to IRMAR waypoint, which was confirmed by the flight: “Direct IRMAR, Merci 18G.” This was the last radio contact with the flight.

At 10:30:08, Captain Patrick Sondenheimer told First Officer Andreas Lubitz that he was leaving the cockpit to use the bathroom and asked him to take over radio communications, which the co-pilot acknowledged.

At 10:30:53, the selected altitude on the Flight Control Unit (FCU) changed in from 38,000ft to 100 ft. One second later, the autopilot changed to OPEN DES mode and autothrust changed to THR IDLE mode. The aircraft started to descend and both engines speed decreased.

At 10:33:12, the speed management changed from managed mode to selected mode. One second later, the selected target speed became 308kt while the aircraft speed was 273kt. The aircraft speed started to increase along with the descent rate which varied between 1,700ft/min and 5,000ft/min, then was on average about 3,500ft/min.

At 10:33:47, the controller asked the flight crew what cruise level they were cleared for. The aircraft was at an altitude of 30,000ft in a descent. There was no answer from the co-pilot. Over the following 30 seconds, the controller tried to contact the flight crew again on two occasions, without any answer.

At 10:34, knocking and muffled voices asking for the door to be opened are heard. Captain Patrick Sondenheimer attempted to access the cockpit by the keypad. Access denied. He said “It’s me! while knocking on the door. After no response Sondenheimer started hammering on the door while shouting “For the love of God, Open this door!”. The plane was about 25,000ft.

At 10:39, Sondenheimer called for a flight attendant to bring him a crowbar hidden in the back of the plane. The pilot began smashing the door, then trying to pry and bend it open. At this point the plane was below 10,000ft. Lubitz placed an oxygen mask over his face. “Open this f**king door!” Sondenheimer screamed.

Image #: 35791561 Wreckage of the Airbus A320 is seen at the site of the crash, near Seyne-les-Alpes, french Alps March 26, 2015. A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself, prosecutors said on Thursday. French prosecutors offered no motive for why 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz apparently took the controls of the Airbus A320, locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately set it veering down from cruising altitude at 3,000 feet per minute. REUTERS /EMMANUEL FOUDROT /LANDOV

At 10:40, an alarm went off “TERRAIN, TERRAIN! PULL UP! PULL UP!” The aircraft was at an altitude of 7,000ft. Sixty seconds later at 10:41 CET (11:41 UTC) the Airbus right wing clipped the mountainside at 5,000ft. The only further sounds picked up by the CVR were alarms and screams. Moments later the plane slammed into the mountain at 403 miles per hour. All 144 passengers & 6 crew members perished.

 

The first picture of the doomed crew of the Germanwings plane taken at Germanwings HQ in Cologne Germany. Hero pilot Capt Patrick Sondenheimer (left) and co-pilot Lubitz along with the crew who where killed when Lubitz crash the plane into a mountain in France

Hero Patrick Sondenheimer fought to get into the cockpit to the very end. However, security requirements led to cockpit doors designed to resist forcible intrusion by unauthorized persons. This made it impossible for Sondenheimer to enter the cockpit before the aircraft impacted the terrain in the French Alps.

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The collision with the ground was due to the deliberate and planned action of the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who decided to commit suicide while alone in the cockpit. The process for medical certification of pilots, in particular self-reporting in case of decrease in medical fitness between two periodic medical evaluations, did not succeed in preventing the co-pilot, who was experiencing mental disorder with psychotic symptoms, from exercising the privilege of his licence.

The following factors may have contributed to the failure of this principle:

  • The copilot probable fear of losing his ability to fly as a professional pilot if he had reported his decrease in medical fitness to an aviation medical examiner.
  • The potential financial consequences generated by the lack of specific insurance covering the risks of loss of income in case of unfitness to fly.
  • The lack of clear guidelines in German regulations on when a threat to public safety outweighs the requirements of medical confidentiality.

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Soon after this crash, some airlines changed their rules to ensure two crew members are in the cockpit at all times. Some airlines that have this rule in place are Easyjet, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Air Canada and Air Transat.

US Airlines have develop procedures which include a requirement that, when one of the pilots exits the cockpit for any reason, another qualified crew member must lock the door and remain on the flight deck until the pilot returns to his or her station. A qualified crew member could be a flight attendant or a relief pilot serving as part of the crew.

BEA Final Report

Article By: @AirCrashMayday

Sources: Wikipedia, AviationSafety, BBCNews, GQ, Guardian

VIDEO Strong wind blew a Boeing 737 at Alykel airport in Siberia


Strong wind blew a 40-ton passenger Boeing 737 on the parking of Alykel airport in Siberia. The air terminal is closed due to bad weather.

VIDEO Brand new Emirates A380 visits Birmingham to undergo ground trials before the launch of A380 flights on Sunday

On Tuesday 22nd March, Airbus flew in a brand new Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft to Birmingham Airport, in order to undergo ground trials before the launch of daily A380 flights on Sunday 27th March 2016

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BREAKING Toulouse airport evacuated due to security reason

  
Toulouse airport (France) is evacuated since 6:45 this morning. Reason given: “security check”. Even passengers on board aircraft had to disembark.

Moreto come soon.

ALERT #MH370 Piece of debris found in South Africa belongs to aircraft engine

CeLsrE6WoAEvm1gA South African archaeologist has found a piece of debris with part of an aircraft engine manufacturer’s logo and Malaysia’s transport minister said Tuesday that authorities will examine it to see if it is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

“Based on early reports, there is a possibility of the piece originating from an inlet cowling of an aircraft engine,” but a further examination and analysis are needed to verify whether it belongs to Flight MH370, said Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai. A team will be dispatched to retrieve the debris, Liow said in a statement.

On South Africa’s southern coast, Neels Kruger was walking along a lagoon on Monday afternoon, near the town of Mossel Bay when he spotted something that did not seem to suit the natural surroundings.

“Being an archaeologist I’m always looking for things with my nose to the ground,” said the 35-year-old. He recognized the brown honeycomb structure from photos of other pieces of debris believed to part of the missing aircraft.

“When I flipped it around, I didn’t know immediately what it was but just thought, ‘Oh my word!'” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. On the other side, Kruger said he recognized what remains of the black Rolls Royce logo, the manufacturer of aircraft engines. The piece is about 70 centimeters by 70 centimeters (27.56 inches by 27.56 inches) “with chunks gone from the side,” said Kruger.

The white surface, with the partial logo, has peeled away to reveal a dark metallic grey covering, a photograph showed. Kruger took photos and sent it to a friend who is a pilot, who in turn passed it on to other pilots, who all quickly became convinced that this was part of an airplane engine. Kruger alerted the South African Civil Aviation Authority who told him to sit tight until further instruction.

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NEWS Thomas Cook reports an impact on bookings from security concerns

Thomas Cook has said the impact from terror attacks has reduced the number of summer holiday bookings – just as details emerged of the latest incident in Brussels.

Shares in the travel operator fell more than 4% with Thomson and First Choice owner TUI down nearly 3%..

IAG shared fell too as well as low-cost rival Ryanair.

Easyjet recovered to finish marginally higher after initially falling.

It came as Thomas Cook reported a reduction in summer bookings for 2016, blaming volatility in key markets because of security concerns.

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BREAKING Two explosions at #Brussels airport just before 8 AM

Smoke at Brussels airport terminal after what sounded like two explosions just before 8 AM.

Evacuation in progress, the airport is locked down. 
 

VIDEO Cargolux Boeing 747-8F Cutaway livery landing at Prestwick Airport

EMERGENCY A Boeing 737 skids off runway at Cusco airport (Peru), all flights supended

Peruvian-AirlinesA Peruvian Airlines Boeing 737 with 80 passengers suffered an oversight on Sunday at the international airport of Cuzco (Peru) without causing casualties. All flights were suspended for a moment.

The plane was about to take off to the city of Lima. One of the tires on the right side burst and due to apparent brake problem the Boeing 737 left the runway.

NEWS Are fragments from Mozambique too clean to be from #MH370?

Some extremely serious doubts about the origins of two pieces of suspected debris from MH370 have been raised by US science writer Jeff Wise, as they arrived today in Australia for analysis.

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The fragments in question, found on the Indian ocean shores of Mozambique in December and February, appeared to be genuine Boeing 777 parts, but always stood out as being remarkably clear of marine fouling.

Jeff Wise has published a detailed review of the forensic implications of prolonged water immersion on such debris and concluded that it is possible that “one or both of the Mozambique objects were never in the ocean at all.”

 

In his conclusion Jeff Wise says:

The absence of biofouling on a piece of suspected aircraft debris recovered in Mozambique in December, 2015 suggests that it entered the water no earlier than October of that year. The absence of biofouling on a piece of suspected aircraft debris recovered in Mozambique in February, 2016 suggests that it entered the water no earlier than January, 2016. It is entirely possible that one or both of the Mozambique objects were never in the ocean at all.

NEWS Malaysia Airlines is bringing back the Boeing 747 in retro livery

CeDKhaBUMAAS4nmAs the A380s will soon be going through maintenance, Malaysia Airlines will be taking a 747 out of storage and using it as an A380 replacement.

NEWS 4 British plane spotters ordered to pay $2,000 or face a year in jail in Kenya

NEWS: Man killed in Co. Longford Crash

Two separate investigations are underway into a plane crash in Co Longford that claimed the life of a man in his forties.

William Hillick from Mullingar in Co Westmeath died when his single-seater aircraft came down at the Abbeyshrule Aerodrome off the N55 Athlone Road following an ‘acrobatic stunt show’ at around 6 o’clock yesterday evening.

Both the Gardaí and the Irish Aviation Authority are trying to piece together what happened.

Emergency services attended the scene and the pilot, who was from Mullingar, was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The tragedy comes almost a year after a helicopter crashed into the side of a pub near the village before falling onto its side on the banks of the Royal Canal.

Source: NewsTalk

NEWS: French Air Traffic Strike continues to cause disruption

EMERGENCY Passenger’s iPhone catches fire on Alaska Airlines flight

640-2147_5c01e46e0593b555d99e03aff7c2cb52An Alaska Air spokesperson said a passenger’s cell phone caught fire Thursday night after flight 807 had left Bellingham, Washington, and was about 90 minutes away from landing in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Alaska Air spokesman told ABC News, “The fire was quickly extinguished by our flight attendants, who are trained for situations like these.”

There were no injuries or damage and the plane continued to Honolulu, an FAA spokesman told ABC News.

EMERGENCY Flight track of FlyDubai #FZ981 737-800 Crash


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BREAKING FlyDubai #FZ981 crashes at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia killing all 62 people on board

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FlyDubai 737 has crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all 62 people on board, officials say.

The flight coming from Dubai, missed the runway as it attempted to land at 03:50 local time on Saturday.

It is not clear what caused the crash but poor visibility and high winds are being considered as a factor.

CCTV footage showed an explosion and a huge flash after the plane crashed.

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EMERGENCY American Airlines #AA4233 makes emergency landing at JFK after lightning strike


American Airlines Flight 4233 from Raleigh-Durham to LaGuardia was forced to make an emergency landing at JFK after the plane hit turbulence and was struck by lightning.

EMERGENCY Water leak on board British Airways A380 #BA56

© Nicolas GausserandLast Sunday, flight British Airways flight BA56 from Johannesburg suffered a water leak 90 minutes from landing at London. Captain decided to continue the flight to Heathrow as the issue didn’t involve flight safety.

Staff rushed to put blankets down to soak up the leak, which originated from the upper cabin of the Airbus A380.

A spokesperson for British Airways told MailOnline Travel: ‘A trolley knocked a water pipe and unfortunately it caused a leak’.

EMERGENCY 4 injured as charter plane engine stops during takeoff at Karachi Airport

charter-karachi-cras-planA charter planeheading to Sui in Balochistan with 18 passengers on board crash-landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Friday, Aaj News reported.

According to initial reports, the engine stopped working during takeoff.

Due to crash landing , four travelers including a captain and a woman have received minor injuries.

 

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ALERT Delta flight just made an emergency landing at Washington, fire trucks are surrounding the plane

Delta Flight from Washington-Reagan to Atlanta just made an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport, fire trucks are surrounding the plane.

The reason of diversion is still not confirmed but there was a smell of smoke after take off followed by alarm.

EMERGENCY A passenger’s bag ignited from an e-cigarette on board Delta Airlines #DL689

NEWS Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Begins Major Assembly

787-10 Artwork K66148-01Major assembly of the first Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787-10 Dreamliner is underway, the latest major milestone in the development of the newest member of the super-efficient 787 family. Boeing partner Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. began installing the circular frames into the midforward section of the fuselage on March 14, a full two weeks ahead of schedule.

As a straightforward stretch of the 787-9, which entered service in 2014, Boeing designed the 787-10 for both superior efficiency and maximum commonality. Ninety-five percent of the design and build of the 787-10 and 787-9 will be identical, reducing complexity, cost and risk across the entire production system while providing operational benefits to customers.

The 787-10, which will undergo final assembly at Boeing South Carolina in North Charleston, will set a new benchmark in efficiency when deliveries begin in 2018. With a robust range capability covering more than 90 percent of the world’s twin-aisle routes, the 787-10 will deliver 25 percent better fuel use and emissions than the airplanes it will replace and at least 10 percent better than anything being offered by the competition in the future.

To date, the 787-10 has won 153 orders from nine leading customers around the world, accounting for 13 percent of all 787 orders.

NEWS Alaska Airlines gives everyone onboard $100 after drunk passenger causes diversion

16031710561434A Alaska Airlines flight 800 Sacramento to Seattle was diverted on Monday when a drunk passenger got a bit too rowdy.

Crew had asked the passenger in row 9 to calm down, but that further agitated him. The pilot diverted to Portland where police met the plane, according to local station KING5.

The flight arrived in Seattle about an hour and 45 minutes late.

But the other passengers weren’t completely out of luck. Alaska offered a US$100 credit to a future flight.

BREAKING Bomb scare on Air India #AI332 at Bangkok Airport

vt-ane-air-india-boeing-787-8-dreamliner_PlanespottersNet_488263Bomb scare on Air India #AI332 from New Delhi. All passengers of the Dreamliner are evacuated in isolated area at Bangkok Airport.

More to come soon…

NEWS Syria conflict: First Russian planes leave after Putin surprise move


Russian forces have started leaving Syria after Monday’s surprise withdrawal announcement by President Vladimir Putin. Russian defence ministry video showed the first group of aircraft taking off from Hmeimim air base in Syria on Tuesday morning and later in flight. But Russia will continue air strikes, and keep several hundred personnel and air defence systems, officials said.

VIDEO Footage of a prison break from St Jérôme prison in Quebec

NEWS British Airways to Ceases London-Baku Flights from May 1

British Airways company ceases flights on the route London-Baku and vice versa from May 1, 2016, the company’s Baku office told Trend on March 15. The last flight on the London-Baku-London route will be performed on April 29.

VIDEO Look at this cargo loader filmed by British passenger at Guangzhou Airport

Cargo loader filmed by British passenger at Guangzhou Airport.

Posté par AIRLIVE.net sur dimanche 13 mars 2016

BREAKING 22 soldiers killed in Ecuadorian army plane crashes in Pastaza

A plane carrying Ecuadorian military personnel crashed in the country’s eastern Pastaza province Tuesday, according to a statement from Ecuador’s army.

Twenty-two people were on board the plane at the time of the crash. Ecuador’s President said in a tweet that all 22 died.

“There are no survivors,” President Rafael Correa posted. “It’s a tragedy.”

NEWS Stuck in the street, an Airbus A320 blocked traffic in Tarbes, France

10623506_1684003271858827_7529530452749538593_oWhile traveling on the national road 21, a truck carrying a Airbus A320 fuselage has been in a difficult situation when he wanted to perform a particularly difficult maneuver for his size.

It took more than 4 hours for police to find the solution to release the truck, which was finally able to take the road shortly before 4pm and reach destination where the aircraft must be dismantled.

VIDEO JFK International Airport departure/arrival pattern timelapse in 4K

VIDEO 92-year-old WW2 veteran flies Spitfire again


92-year-old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran Joy Lofthouse returns to the skies in a Spitfire 70 years on from the end of World War 2.

Seven decades after her last flight in the iconic plane, Joy described the experience as “lovely: it was perfect”, making her feel “quite young.” The ATA made an enormous contribution to the war effort by taking over from service pilots the task of ferrying Royal Air Force and Royal Navy warplanes between factories, maintenance units and front-line squadrons.

VIDEO Solar Eclipse during Alaska Airlines flight 870, breathtaking!!!

BREAKING Pilot injured in light plane crash near Waushara County

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ALERT Service truck hits plane at Philadelphia international airport

S service truck hit the empty jet just before 1 p.m. Monday at Terminal F.

The driver of the truck was injured and taken to the hospital. The condition of that person was not immediately known.

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NEWS UK Cabinet minister: “British Prime Minister will scrap third runway plan at Heathrow”

International Development Secretary Justine Greening has said that David Cameron will scrap plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

She said he believed that the Government would start a new long-term strategy to increase airport capacity by shelving Heathrow.

Miss Greening is a known opponent to Heathrow expansion.

 

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Miss Greening added she was confident that her colleagues in the Cabinet would reject the third runway plan.

Last year, the UK Airports Commission recommended to expand Heathrow rather then Gatwick – but MPs have spoken out against the ruling.

VIDEO Air France Boeing 777-300ER landing at Edinburgh Airport as a charter flight for rugby fans


Air France operated its Triple Seven in from Paris Orly as a charter flight for many hundreds of Rugby fans who have come to Sctoland this weekend to watch the Sctoland Vs France game on Sunday.

VIDEO Air France Boeing 777-300ER landing at Edinburgh Airport as a charter flight for rugby fans


Air France operated its Triple Seven in from Paris Orly as a charter flight for many hundreds of Rugby fans who have come to Sctoland this weekend to watch the Sctoland Vs France game on Sunday.

VIDEO Very impressive Boeing 737-200 approach at Toncontin, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Very impressive Boeing 737-200 approach at Toncontin, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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BREAKING Light Plane Crash kills 4 In Eastern Idaho

NEWS Final report of BEA Germanwings flight #4U9525 crash investigation


BREAKING Two missiles with explosive warheads discovered on Air Serbia flight from Lebanon

4616270702Serbia’s authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for Portland contained two missiles with explosive warheads on a passenger flight from Lebanon.

N1 television said the package with two guided armor-piercing missiles was discovered Saturday by a sniffer dog after an Air Serbia flight from Beirut landed at Belgrade airport.

Serbian media say documents listed the final destination for the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles as Portland. The American-made projectiles can be fired from air, sea or ground platforms.

N1 reported Sunday that Air Serbia is helping in the investigation. The Serbian flag carrier says “security and safety are the main priorities for Air Serbia.”

By The Associated Press

NEWS Massive fire breaks out near Buenos Aires airport

The fire started near Ezeiza International Airport.

The cause has not been identified yet, however an investigation is in progress.

Firefighters suppressed the fire, which is close to some of the planes, while the security services are also at the scene of the accident.

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EMERGENCY Egyptair 737-800 suffered a severe bird strike on approach to Heathrow

NEWS Iron Maiden’s 747 #EdForceOne seriously damaged in collision at Santiago

The 747 borrowed by band Iron Maiden has been damaged by a truck at Santiago, Chile airport. They released this statement on their website:

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VIDEO Airbus A321NEO D-AVXB test flight with leap-1a engines by CFM

EMERGENCY Flight #LO3847 was stranded on runway right after landing in Wroclaw

640-4240_59aaea54b629d2c05d888c830c2fae53LOT Polish Airlines flight LO3847 (DHC8-400) was stranded on runway right after landing in Wroclaw due to 2 flat tyres.

NEWS: Easyjet flight stopped moments before take off after passenger spots a spanner stuck in the wing

An EasyJet flight from Geneva to Copenhagen was moments from taking off when a passenger glanced out of his window and noticed a spanner in the wing.

The passenger alerted the pilot and the flight was halted.

“I realised straight away that what I was seeing was not normal.

“There was a spanner attached to the wing.”

An hour later the flight set off for Denmark after being given the all clear.

An EasyJet spokesman said: “The captain returned to the plane’s departure point and a spanner was discovered.

“We have opened an inquiry and the authorities have been informed.”

An aviation expert told Switzerland’s 20 Minutes online news website that if the spanner had fallen on the runway, it could have been hit by the next aircraft.

“It could have caused serious structural damage, just like with the Concorde crash in Paris,” the said.

“If it had stayed attached to the plane, the pilot would have realised when he retracted the flaps about 400 metres from the ground, and been forced to make an emergency landing.’

Source: Yahoo! News

VIDEO Fire alarm at Chicago O’Hare Airport on thursday due to smoke in terminal

BREAKING American Airlines #AA87 from Heathrow to Chicago is declaring an emergency

VIDEO Father & daughter saved by parachute when aircraft crashes in Hauppauge


Surveillance video captured a small plane that fell from the sky and made an emergency landing Saturday on the front lawn of a business in Hauppauge.

In the footage, the Cirrus SR22 plane can be seen hitting the lawn and bouncing once before its emergency parachute drapes over the roof of a building.

The pilot and his daughter were inside the plane when it crashed and exited unharmed moments later. The pilot reported having engine trouble as he was approaching Republic Airport in Farmingdale. The aircraft was en route there from Rhode Island.

The Cirrus SR22 aircraft is one of the only small planes to have an emergency parachute, and aviation experts say the pilot was lucky to have one equipped.

NEWS B-52 bombers ready and able to strike ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria

150220133443-01-ghost-rider-exlarge-169American B-52 bombers are “ready and able” to strike ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, a top Air Force official confirmed Monday.

The air campaign against ISIS is “taking a toll on our aircraft, our readiness and our airmen” but the “venerable B-52 … remains ready and able to meet combatant commander requirements,” Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said during a Pentagon press briefing.

The bombers would deploy in April to take part in the air campaign against ISIS, according to Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, who announced the deployment while speaking at the Air Warfare Symposium 2016 in Orlando, Florida, in February.

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VIDEO 5 Women brawl on board Spirit Airlines flight #NK141 to LAX


A brawl involving multiple passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight that had arrived at LAX from Baltimore on Wednesday was caught on camera by a passenger.

It all started, witnesses said, after the plane had landed and a few passengers were playing their music loudly. According to CBS Baltimore, five women were involved in the melee that began because the music was apparently being blasted on a boombox.

Other passengers asked them to turn the volume down. From there, tensions rose and the passengers came to blows.

Flight attendants and passengers were able to quickly diffuse the fight, witnesses said, and no one was seriously hurt.

Airport police and the FBI also arrived on the scene. No arrests were made but one person was cited.

EMERGENCY A man opened a Boeing 737 security door just for air!


The cabin crew and passengers on China Southern Airlines flight CZ3693 got a rude shock Wednesday morning when a passenger onboard the flight opened the emergency exit door before takeoff from Chengdu Airport.

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According to the passenger, he was just trying to “get some fresh air” and had mistaken the door handle as a lever to open the plane’s windows, reported Chengdu Commercial News.

The plane was carrying a total of 130 passengers and was bound for Urumqi, China.