A light aircraft has been forced to land near a golf course just short of the runway at St Athan airfield in South Wales. The aircraft, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee G-OFTI, is understood to have suffered a loss of power and was unable to make the runway. The aircraft landed [read more]
Boeing has asked for eight of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which are in use with airlines, to be pulled out of service due to a manufacturing problem it has discovered. The Seattle-based airframer has not disclosed the exact nature of the problem but it is understood to be two [read more]
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has said it will begin testing the Boeing 737 Max from the 7th September 2020 in a bid to get the aircraft cleared to fly again. The latest variant of the best selling Boeing 737 family has been grounded since March 2019 following [read more]
Switzerland, Czech Republic and Jamaica are being removed from the UK Government’s Coronavirus safe list. This means that travellers returning from these destinations will now to need quarantine for 14-days on return from 04:00 on Saturday. Traveller now have just over 24 hours to return to the UK to avoid [read more]
Kepler Aerospace has purchased former RAF VC10, ZA150, from the Brooklands Museum Trust with a view to returning it to flight as refuelling aicraft. ZA150 has been kept in a taxiable condition at Dunsfold Aerodrome by the Brooklands Trust but the decision was taken some time ago to dispose of [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) is doubling flights to Aberdeen and Belfast from Teesside Airport (MME/EGNV) from 7th September. The Aberdeen service will operate twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with an additional flight on Sundays. Belfast City will become twice-daily on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with new weekend routes for leisure [read more]
The popular destinations of Croatia and Austria have been placed on the list of destinations that will require 14-days of quarantine on return to the UK. The Caribbean islands of Trinidad & Tobago will now also require quarantine which comes into force for all 3 destinations at 4 am Saturday [read more]
Iberia, TUI Airways UK and Pegasus are all relaunching flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) this week which means passengers using the airport now have a choice of 120 destinations. Pegasus is resuming flights to Dalaman, Turkey and TUI Airways UK is adding Larnaca & Paphos in Cyrpus as well as [read more]
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, and its UK subsidiary Wizz Air UK are to set up a base London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) putting it in direct competition with Easyjet. Wizz Air will initially launch with a single aircraft operating flights to Athens, Lanzarote, Malta and Naples which all are all [read more]
An Air India Express flight from Dubai skidded off the end of the runway and crashed after landing at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India. According to local reports the aircraft, a Boeing 737, was carrying 191 passengers. An image (shown above) widely shared on social media by twitter user [read more]
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