Category: Civil Aviation

Even after Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya had “accidentally” opened a flight’s emergency exit, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, who was his co-passenger, has claimed that Surya just reported “a gap in the door” to an air hostess. “Surya noticed a gap in the door where the […]

A Qantas Airways Ltd. flight to Fiji turned back to Sydney with a possible mechanical problem, a day after another of its jets issued a mayday alert due to engine trouble en route from Auckland. Flight QF101 returned to Sydney after pilots received a fault indicator about a potential mechanical issue, Qantas said Thursday. The […]

NASA announced on Wednesday that it has issued an award to The Boeing Company to develop more sustainable single-aisle aircraft. The US-based space agency will invest $425 million over seven years, and Boeing will work with the space agency to build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions. […]

The Indian Army is looking to purchase vehicle-based drone jammers which are capable of detection and neutralisation of drones/swarms from multiple directions. A request for proposal (RFP) for the jammers was floated by the Army on January 18 with specifications and numbers of such vehicle-based systems that it wants to purchase. At present, the RFP […]

Tejasvi Surya, national president of the BJP Yuva Morcha and the party’s MP from Bengaluru South, invited backlash from the Opposition Wednesday after it came to light that he had allegedly opened the emergency exit door of an IndiGo aircraft before takeoff, at the Chennai airport on December 10 last year. While media reports named […]

The hashtag #TejasviSuryaMP trended on Twitter on Wednesday as netizens criticised the BJP MP for opening the emergency door of a flight before its takeoff. Several tweets said the rich and powerful always had an easy way out after committing such mistakes, adding that the emergency door could not have been opened accidentally. Mansoor Khan, […]

A day after it was reported that BJP MP Tejasvi Surya had opened the emergency exit door of an Indigo flight before takeoff in December, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the incident happened by “mistake” and that Surya had “apologised” for the same. “The person concerned, Tejasvi Surya himself reported to the crew […]

Opposition party leaders came down heavily on the BJP after the incident of its Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya allegedly trying to open the emergency exit door of the Indigo Flight was reported. Tejasvi Surya, national president of the BJP Yuva Morcha and the party’s MP from Bengaluru South, allegedly opened the emergency exit door […]

A helicopter crashed in fog near a nursery outside Kyiv on Wednesday, killing 14 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a “terrible tragedy,” before calling for an investigation. The crash set off a large fire, and an entire side of the local nursery building was charred. The Kyiv region’s governor […]

Eighteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children were killed Wednesday morning when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said. The helicopter came down close to the nursery and a residential building in Brovary to the northeast of the capital, local officials said. The regional governor […]

A team of experts from France, which is in Nepal to help the government investigate the crash of Yeti Airlines’ aircraft with 72 people on board, on Wednesday began its probe and visited the accident site in the resort city of Pokhara, officials said. The nine-member team is enquiring with the airlines’ staff and concerned […]

A Qantas flight from New Zealand landed safely at the Sydney Airport after it issued a mayday call over the ocean Wednesday. Emergency services rushed to the plane after Qantas Flight 144 arrived from Auckland, New Zealand. Multiple outlets reported it had an engine failure while over the Pacific Ocean. Boeing 737 jets have two […]