Category: Civil Aviation

Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport Sunday, investigators said. Dramatic footage shared on social media showed Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, land at Sheremetyevo international airport, flames and black smoke pouring […]

Boeing Co did not tell US regulators for more than a year that it inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 MAX, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but insisted on Sunday the missing display represented no safety risk The US planemaker has been trying […]

Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most influential businessmen, said Saturday that he would not hesitate to fly in a Boeing 737 Max airplane, despite the grounding of the planes after two fatal crashes. “I will never hesitate even for a second to fly on a 737 MAX,” he said in response to a […]

A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s […]

In fresh affidavits filed in the Supreme Court, the Centre has stated that the monitoring of Rafale deal by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) cannot be seen as interference in any way, news agency ANI reported on Saturday. The Centre, in its affidavit stated that the Supreme Court’s December 14, 2018, “judgment upholding the 36 […]

More than 150 cabin crew as well as pilots from Jet Airways have been shortlisted by Air India and are expected to join the government-owned airline in a fortnight. Meanwhile, some employees of the “temporarily-grounded” Jet Airways requested the Sahar police to file a first information report (FIR) against the airlines and the State Bank […]

Air India has submitted a plan to the aviation ministry detailing how it would help employees occupying 676 of the 810 flats in the airline’s housing complex in south Delhi’s tony Vasant Vihar neighbourhood to find alternative accommodation if they were asked to vacate the apartments, two officials familiar with the matter said on condition […]

A technical snag in the aircraft of SpiceJet Pune to Dubai flight left 188 passengers stranded at the Lohegaon airport in the city for at least 14 hours. The SpiceJet flight that was scheduled to depart at 8 pm on Sunday (April 28), took off the next day at 10 30 am. After an initial […]

The CEO of Boeing defended the company’s safety record and declined to take any more than partial blame for two deadly crashes of its best-selling plane even while saying Monday that the company has nearly finished an update that “will make the airplane even safer.” Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg took reporters’ questions for the […]

Boeing Co. acknowledged that a cockpit alert notifying pilots of a sensor malfunction linked to two fatal accidents wasn’t working as represented on every 737 Max. The planemaker said it didn’t purposefully deactivate a warning meant to show if two angle-of-attack vanes provided conflicting data to aircraft flight computers. But the alert only functioned if […]

Senior Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, who failed the alcohol test just before he was to command a flight on November 11 and was subsequently removed from the post of director (operations), has been appointed as a regional director by the national carrier. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had suspended the flying licence […]

A day before the February 26 air strike by India on a Jaish-e-Mohammed training facility in Balakot in Pakistan, the country’s defence ministry moved the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for acquisition of two more PHALCON airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) aircraft from Israel to match Pakistan’s growing capabilities, according to people familiar with […]