Jet Crashes After Moscow Take-Off
A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of...
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420 Ghanaian Muslims Arrive In Saudi Arabia For Hajj
The first batch of 420 Ghanaian Muslims has arrived in Medina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform this year’s hajj for the next 30 days. They left from the Tamale International Airport in the...
Sri Lankan Crew Averts Mid-Air Fire Caused By Phone
Crew on a Sri Lankan Airlines plane carrying 202 passengers have extinguished a mid-flight fire triggered by a mobile phone battery in an overhead locker, the carrier said Monday. The airline said a...
Emirates Highlights Female Role Models In Aviation With Simulator Challenge
Championing the importance of women’s contributions to the growth and development of aviation, Emirates recently hosted Shaesta Waiz for a Boeing 777 simulator challenge in its home base of Dubai....
Air Canada Jet Nearly Lands On Taxiway In San Francisco
US aviation authorities are looking into an incident involving an Air Canada plane which nearly landed on a crowded taxiway instead of a runway at San Francisco airport, officials said Tuesday. The...
Why Has Iran’s Investment Gold Rush Been So Slow To Emerge?
When Iran signed its landmark deal with world powers in 2015, curbing its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief, many expected an investment gold rush. But despite thousands of business...
AirAsia Plane ‘shaking Like Washing Machine’ Returns To Australia
An AirAsia flight to Malaysia was forced back to Australia Sunday due to a technical problem, with one passenger saying the plane was "shaking like a washing machine". The Airbus A330 from Perth to...
Iran’s Zagros Airlines Agrees To Buy 28 Airbus Planes
Iran's Zagros Airlines has agreed to buy 28 planes from Airbus, the European aircraft maker said on Thursday at the Paris Air Show. Zagros, which flies domestic routes in Iran, signed a memorandum of...
Saudi Carrier Seeks To Poach Qatar Airways Crews
A Saudi Arabian airline on Monday tweeted a warm welcome to pilots and staff from Qatar Airways whom it hopes to poach after the kingdom severed air links with Doha. On Twitter early Monday, budget...
China Eastern Plane Lands At Sydney With Hole In Engine
A China Eastern Airlines plane has had to turn back to Sydney airport after a technical failure which left a hole in an engine casing. Flight MU736 was heading from Sydney, Australia to Shanghai, but...
Calls Mount For Rethink of Brexit Stance
There are growing calls for a rethink of Theresa May's Brexit stance in the wake of a hung parliament. The Conservatives leader had sought to take the UK out of the single market and end freedom of...
Boeing and Iran’s Aseman Finalise $3bn Deal For 30 Jets
Iran's Aseman Airlines has finalised an agreement to buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX jets for $3.0 billion, the company said Saturday, with an option to buy 30 more. The deal, announced in April, was signed at...
WTO Says US Failed To Fully Comply In Boeing Subsidies Dispute
The World Trade Organization said Friday the United States had not fully complied with a 2012 ruling ordering it to halt subsidies to Boeing, in a partial victory for rival aircraft maker Airbus and...
Philippine Carrier To Buy Seven Airbus Jets For $812 Mn
The Philippines' largest airline Cebu Pacific is ordering seven Airbus A321ceo aircraft in a deal worth $812 million to meet growing domestic and regional demand, the airline said Wednesday. Cebu...
New Russian Jet Takes To Air In Bid To Rival Airbus and Boeing
Russia on Sunday held a successful test flight of its new MC-21 medium-haul passenger jet that it hopes will revive its troubled civil aviation industry and challenge giants Airbus and Boeing. The...
Airbus Starts Building First Helicopter Plant In China
Airbus has begun building its first helicopter assembly plant in China, and the European planemaker plans to produce 18 machines a year there in hopes the country will soon open up its low-altitude...
China, Russia Launch Long-Haul Challenge To Boeing, Airbus
China and Russia on Monday launched an ambitious project to jointly develop a long-haul jet to challenge Boeing and Airbus, just two weeks after the successful test flight of the first made-in-China...
Egypt Marks MS804 Crash With Ceremony and No Information
Egypt held a sombre ceremony on the first anniversary of the EgyptAir MS804 disaster in Cairo Friday, but no answers were forthcoming on why the flight crashed into the Mediterranean killing all...
EgyptAir MS804 Crash An Accident
No traces of explosives were found on the remains of French victims aboard an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May 2016, a source close to the French investigation said. The...
Sri Lanka’s Airline Sell Off Fails, Seeks New Partner
A US equity firm that bid to buy a stake in Sri Lanka's loss-making national airline has pulled its offer, officials said Saturday as the carrier scrambled for a new partner. TPG, a San...