Ensure timely arrival of baggage at airports after aircraft landing: BCAS tells airlines

Regulator Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has directed airlines to ensure that all baggage of passengers is delivered within 30 minutes of landing of a flight at an airport. The directive from the BCAS to seven scheduled airlines also comes against the backdrop of delays in passengers getting their baggage after landing of a […]

IAF’s Chinook helicopter makes precautionary landing in Punjab’s Sangrur

A Chinook helicopter of the Indian Air Force made a precautionary landing following a “technical snag” in Punjab’s Sangrur district on Sunday, police said. The helicopter landed on an open ground at Dhadrian village of Longowal in Sangrur around 1 pm, a police official said, adding both crew members and the helicopter were safe.

Sangrur: Indian Air Force copter lands in village after ‘snag’

A Chinook helicopter of the Indian Air Force made an emergency landing following a “technical snag” in Sunam on Sunday. The helicopter landed on an open ground in Dhadrian village around 1 pm, a police official said, adding that both crew members and the helicopter were safe. After knowing about helicopter’s emergency landing in the […]

China’s first home-grown airliner makes international debut in Singapore

China’s challenger to Airbus and Boeing’s passenger jets, the narrow-body C919 manufactured by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), has made its first trip outside Chinese territory, staging a fly-by at the Singapore Airshow on Sunday. China has invested heavily in its attempt to break the hold of the dominant two Western planemakers on […]