A Virgin Atlantic flight bound for New York City was canceled right before it was set to take off on January 15 after a passenger noticed that several screws were missing from the Airbus A330’s wing. Phil Hardy, a British traveler, was sitting onboard Virgin Flight 127 at Manchester Airport in England when he noticed … Read more
Image: Breaking Aviation News & Videos on Twitter There’s pretty much just one rule to driving on an airport runway, and it’s “don’t hit shit.” A subset of that rule is the notion that the eighty-ton aircraft pretty much always has the right of way. Early on Monday morning an airport security staffer at Sydney … Read more
LONDON – Boeing shares listed in Frankfurt and in U.S. pre-market trading fell almost 8% early on Monday after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered the temporary grounding of some Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets. A piece of fuselage tore off an Alaska Airlines jet on Friday following takeoff from Portland, Oregon, forcing pilots to … Read more
Japan Airlines stated that it took 18 minutes for Flight 516’s burning Airbus A350-900 to be fully evacuated after colliding with a Japanese Coast Guard Bombardier Dash 8 at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Those 18 minutes span from the point of impact until the final person left the aircraft. The recorded footage and accounts from … Read more
