NEWS Emirates A380 from Dubai to Auckland makes longest non-stop flight

EMERGENCY Allegiant Air flight #G4758plane made emergency landing in Jacksonville due to cabin pressure problem

A cabin pressure problem forced the emergency landing of an Allegiant Air plane early this morning, March 2, at Jacksonville International Airport. Eturbonews reported that spokesperson Debbie Jones, spoke with First Coast News and confirmed that the plane landed safely at 8:13 a.m., and taxied to Gate C3. The flight, which originated from Orlando Sanford International Airport, where it took off after 7:30 a.m., was heading to Indianapolis International Airport. There were 155 passengers and six crew members on board. No injuries have been reported.

The jet was evacuated and at Jacksonville airport and passengers were put on a different plane that was sent from SFB to take them to Indiana. The airline said that passengers will be receiving a refund for the flight segment, food at the gate, the option to change their flight to another one in the Allegiant network and $200 vouchers for future travel on Allegiant. NBC Chicago reported that the aircraft was taken out of service and was scheduled to be inspected by maintenance. The cause of the pressurization issue was not immediately known.

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VIDEO Singapore Airlines Becomes New Operator of the Airbus A350XWB

Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of its first A350 XWB in Toulouse, France, becoming the fifth operator of the all-new widebody airliner. With its unrivalled passenger flying experience and operational efficiency, the A350 XWB will form the backbone of Singapore Airlines’ future mid-size widebody fleet.

ALERT Captain of Saudi Arabian Airlines flight #SV1734 dies on board

Captain of Arabian Airlines flight #SV1734 from Bisha to Riyadh died after suffering a heart attack shortly before landing.

According to Gulf Digital News report, co-pilot Rami Ghazi Batabara requested an emergency landing and safely landed the plane after alerting the control tower.

“The aircraft and the passengers were not in danger for one moment as the assistant pilot managed to land safely,” the state-owned Saudia Airlines said in a statement carried by Sada and other Saudi newspapers on Wednesday.

A doctor who was travelling in the plane was requested to examine the pilot.

NEWS A former Brazilian supermodel causes a minor scandal publishing photo almost nude on board Emirates plane

Suzy Cortez, former Brazilian supermodel and Miss Bum Bum 2005 caused a minor scandal when she posted on social networks a picture of her taken in the toilets of Emirates Boeing 777 flight EK262 from São Paulo to Dubaï.

“Breaking a record:
the first nude at 11000 meters”

Posted on Instagram, the photo quickly went around the web finally arrived to the eyes of the airline executives who did not appreciate. The young woman of 26 years almost never misses a chance to get noticed.

The photo was deleted from the Instagram account.

EVENT Today, watch Boeing 727 Prototype Final Flight

The Museum of Flight is in the final countdown of finishing a 25-year effort restoring the historic, first Boeing 727 and flying it to the Museum for permanent exhibition. This unique jet has not been airborne since it was donated to the Museum by United Air Lines in 1991, and has been under restoration ever since by volunteer crews at the Museum’s Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field, Everett, Wash. First flying in 1963, the sleek, innovative 727 introduced the jet age to millions of new passengers around the globe, and was for many years the most successful airliner of the modern era.

Event Schedule Wednesday, March 2

18:00 (UTC) Departure ceremony at Future of Flight, Paine Field
18:30 (UTC) Boeing 727-100 takes flight from Paine Field
18:45 (UTC) Boeing 727-100 lands at Boeing Field
19:00 (UTC) Arrival Ceremony at Museum of Flight
 

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BREAKING Possible missing Boeing 777 #MH370 horizontal stabilizer found off Mozambique

An object that could be debris from a Boeing 777 has been found off Mozambique and is being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, sources told NBC News.

Early photographic analysis of the object suggests it could have come from the doomed jet, which vanished almost exactly 2 years ago.

The object with the words “NO STEP” could be from the plane’s horizontal stabilizer. It was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel.

Investigators in Malaysia, Australia and the U.S. have looked at photographs of the latest object and sources say there is a good chance it derives from a Boeing 777.

Boeing engineers are looking at the photos, according to sources, but the company has declined to comment. It was discovered by an American who has been blogging about the search for MH370.

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First 2 hour flight of Missing Malaysian Airlines MH370

NEWS NASA Begins Work to Build a Quieter Supersonic Passenger Jet

The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft.

This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the award at an event Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

NEWS Kenya’s major airports on high alert after terror threat warning

Security officials at Kenya’s major airports are on high alert this week after Kenya’s Airports Authority issued a warning to all airport managers about possible terror threats against the facilities. The internal memo, marked as “secret,” was sent to CNN and has been verified by a high-level source in the Kenyan aviation industry who received the note late last week. The memo warns airport employees that al Qaeda-linked terror group Al Shabaab would deploy suicide bombers trained in Somalia “on airborne suicide missions.”

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ALERT 2 Israeli fighter jets came dangerously close to Ryanair flight #FR2617

Two Israel Air Force fighter jets came “dangerously close” to the Ryanair passenger plane, which had 162 passengers on board, close to Ovda Airport, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the southern resort town of Eilat, Army Radio reported.

The incident occurred at 27,000 feet. The Ryanair pilots prevented a crash by changing course at the last moment, Channel 2 reported, citing the speedy and effective reaction of the Ryanair cockpit to the danger.

But Ryanair denied the “false and invented” reports of a near-miss:
“This flight from Krakow to Eilat Ovda (1 Mar) was cruising at 27,000 ft in Israeli airspace when two military aircraft (over 3 miles away) were noticed by the crew ascending towards the Ryanair aircraft flight path. The crew notified local ATC and the military aircraft descended away from the Ryanair jet, which continued on to Eilat Ovda and landed without incident,” it said.

 

Four fighter jets were engaged in the exercise; two of them flew from east to west across the civilian airliner’s path.

 

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