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Representational AI photo NEW DELHI: Alert air traffic controllers at Delhi Airport on Wednesday asked two incoming aircraft to initiate a go-around after pilots of a third aircraft which had landed on the runway the two were supposed to touch down on, had reported “an eagle very close on landing roll.” Both the aircraft safely…
Iran struck and damaged five US Air Force refuelling planes on the ground at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base, The Wall Street Journal reported, in what would mark a major escalation in the Middle East conflict involving the United States-Israel and the Islamic Republic.Click here for live updates on day 15 of Middle East…
Israeli strikes hit Tehran on Saturday as the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States intensified, with explosions reported at the capital’s Mehrabad International Airport and other parts of the city.Footage posted on social media showed strikes and large fires at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, with eyewitnesses reporting burning planes on the tarmac after…
Around 500 passengers had to spend an entire night inside their grounded planes at Munich Airport as all the staff had gone home because of the heavy snowstorm and the airport had already been closed. According to German newspaper Bild, 123 passengers were due to fly from Munich to Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday, February 19,…
Plane crash on Jan 28 near Baramati airport. Mumbai: The two independent black boxes of the Learjet aircraft that crashed at Baramati airport, killing the then Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, sustained fire damage, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said on Tuesday. The AAIB said specialised support from the manufacturer was sought to retrieve data…
NEW DELHI: Two Air India flights bound for the UK were diverted due to adverse weather conditions, forcing one aircraft to divert and another to delay landing, the airline said on Thursday.Flight AI131 operating from Mumbai to London Heathrow was diverted to London Gatwick on 9 January after poor weather conditions made landing at Heathrow…
NEW DELHI: India will soon join a select group of nations that have a final assembly line (FAL) for commercial fixed-wing aircraft. The Adani Group has tied up with Brazil’s Embraer to make in India the latter’s popular regional jets, which are operated on short- to medium-haul routes with seating capacity ranging from 70 to…
Do you remember the first time you noticed an aircraft overhead? A metal giant cutting through the sky, growing smaller until it vanished from sight. For some, the feeling never quite leaves.But an aircraft’s story does not end at the horizon.Long after it disappears from view, the plane will fly hundreds, sometimes thousands, of times….
A screen displays delays in IndiGo flights at Delhi’s IGI on Saturday. According to DGCA, 82% of the 338 Indian aircraft had been updated by Saturday evening. IndiGo announced before midnight that it had completed the task of updating its 200 affected jets NEW DELHI: A cosmic curveball forced a frantic fix as Indian operators…
Airbus has grounded 6,000 A320 aircraft—half its global fleet—for emergency software fixes after discovering intense solar radiation can corrupt critical flight control systems. The unprecedented recall follows an October incident when a JetBlue flight suddenly nosedived without pilot input, forcing an emergency landing. Airlines worldwide face massive disruptions during peak travel season, with repairs taking…
