Looks like an A318 or A319. A witness says it was an A319 headed for Oslo. "Both runways are currently closed. All passengers & crew have been safely evacuated from an aircraft which is on the northern runway." "Air traffic controllers said the airport was closed to all arrivals following the incident, which happened just after 8 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET)." (worldnews.nbcnews.com) More...
Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer. There's also a long-held tradition of naming airports, airfields and terminals for people with links to aviation history. Here are a dozen to explore. (www.usatoday.com) More...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to weigh whether federal law prevented a customer from suing an airline for kicking him out of its frequent flyer program for allegedly complaining too frequently about the service. (www.reuters.com) More...
You know you're having a bad day when a flight goes so bad that you feel you must resort to using a parachute to see you safely through the flight... but the day is TRULY bad when that chute fails and leaves you to battle the emergency that you thought you had escaped from. (www.aero-news.net) More...
SkyWest Inc.’s order for 100 new Embraer 175 aircraft includes 60 that are considered conditional, which the U.S. regional carrier’s CFO says enables the carrier to obtain delivery slots without making a definitive commitment to acquire the jets until it knows it will have an airline partner to make use of them. (www.aviationweek.com) More...
As it stands now, on the 23rd of May 2013, around 10:30pm EST the last flight ever will board at JFK Terminal 3, from Gate 6, and at approximately 11:25pm EST the last aircraft will close its doors, and push back into the alley for the last time. Delta Flight 268, a Boeing 747-451, will taxi to intersection Kilo-Golf, onto Taxiway Alpha and JFK’s Terminal 3 will cease all operations. (boardingarea.com) More...
A PASSENGER plane is being escorted by RAF fighter jets to Stansted Airport for "security reasons". The plane, which is a Pakistan International Airlines plane, has been diverted from landing in Manchester. There are believed to be 297 passengers on board the plane, and a spokesman for Essex Police said: "An incident has occurred on an aircraft. Police and partners are responding." (www.express.co.uk) More...
WASHINGTON - The FAA issued a safety alert for Boeing 737 jetliners after electrical fires broke out on at least three planes due to incorrectly installed clamps that caused wires to rub together. The FAA ranked the fires a "serious event" and "potentially hazardous situation which can cause serious injury and damage to (an) aircraft." (www.komonews.com) More...
As Boeing 787s re-enter service on routes around the world following the aircraft’s prolonged grounding for battery problems, the company is already busy resolving other issues that were emerging before they ceased flying in mid-January. (www.aviationweek.com) More...
LOT Polish Airlines has expanded its Dreamliner fleet and is planning to reintroduce Boeing 787s back to regular service from 5th June 2013. (www.theaviationwriter.com) More...
Federal authorities are investigating why pieces of a 747 cargo plane crashed into the woman's house Sunday afternoon. The woman lives on Newton Estate Drive in Clayton County, along a direct flight path to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Another piece of the plane landed at a Walmart on Anvil Block Road, just a couple of miles away. (www.wsbtv.com) More...
A couple who had intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, ended up 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, because of an airline error. Sandy Valdivieso and her husband Triet Vo, 39, told the Los Angeles Times that they didn't think anything was amiss when they got their Turkish Airlines boarding passes for their flights from Los Angeles to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Their passes had them going from LAX, the airport code for Los Angeles International Airport, to IST, Istanbul, to… (www.usatoday.com) More...
UK regional carrier Flybe is to defer, for at least three years, delivery of 16 Embraer 175 jets which had been due to arrive over 2014-15. (www.flightglobal.com) More...
