Category: Civil Aviation

A Cessna 172 aircraft on a training flight crashed in an agricultural field at Indapur in Pune district of Maharashtra on Tuesday.

The final investigation report of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on a bird hit suffered by a Delhi-Mumbai GoAir flight on June 21, 2017, has revealed that the pilots turned off the wrong engine and flew the plane on the engine that had ingested the bird.

Mumbai: Jet Airways had a unique visitor on Monday. When staffers entered the cockpit of a Boeing 777 aircraft, which was parked at Mumbai airport overnight, they were surprised to see an owl inside. The bird had perched itself next to the left hand seat, occupied by the commander on a flight.

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) received a paltry budgetary provision of Rs. 34.1 crore in the BMC budget on Monday. The provision has been made towards the implementation of the intelligent transport management system, which will allow the BEST to track buses in real time, installation of passenger information system and digitisation of […]

A district consumer disputes redressal forum here has directed Indian Airlines and a travel agency to compensate a group of passengers by paying over ₹60,000 after the airlines rescheduled a flight to Dibrugah without prior intimation.

The Cochin Customs unit seized a total of 1.5 kg of gold and 50 cartons of cigarettes from a passenger who arrived at the Cochin International Airport from Doha on Sunday. A total of 923 grams of gold was seized from the passenger.

Two squadron leaders of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed when their fighter aircraft crashed during take-off at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru on Friday morning. The aircraft, an upgraded twin-seater Mirage 2000, was on a customer acceptance flight at HAL airport, a statement from HAL said. The incident comes days […]

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has not shifted any goal posts and is fully committed to indigenisation, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) BS Dhanoa said on Thursday while flagging delays in domestic development and manufacture of defence equipment. Air power, he said, was a expensive proposition.

GoAir has announced new direct flights to Muscat and Abu Dhabi from the Kannur International Airport from February 28 and March 1 respectively.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the government has reduced the sales tax on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) for flights from the Kannur international airport as part of the regional connectivity scheme under the Union government’s Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik (UDAN).

Representatives of the Andhra Pradesh Air Travellers Association (APATA) met Air India Director (Commercial) and Board Member Capt. Amitab Singh in Mumbai along with Daggubati Purandeswari, Independent Director, Air India on Monday to seek introduction of late night flights from the city to Mumbai and Delhi.

The departure of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan from the Kannur International Airport to attend the inauguration of the BPCL’s Integrated Refinery Expansion Complex in Kochi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday was delayed as the Navy’s Dornier aircraft could not fly due to technical snags.