Category: Civil Aviation

An IndiGo flight from Madurai to Delhi was diverted to the Indore airport after a 60-year-old passenger’s health deteriorated mid-air on Saturday evening, a senior official said. After the flight landed at the Devi Ahilyabai Holkar international airport, the passenger was taken to a hospital near the airport where doctors declared him brought dead, he […]

Operations at Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru will start Sunday, the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. Star Air will be the first domestic airline to take off towards Kalaburgi from KIA’s Terminal 2, said officials. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated Terminal 2 of the airport on November 11 last […]

The helicopter carrying Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday landed in Manawar town of Dhar district from where it had taken off sometime back due to a technical glitch, police said. Chouhan’s chopper took off from Manawar to reach Dhar in the evening but it had to fly back to (Manawar) shortly […]

Shankar Mishra, accused of allegedly urinating on a woman on an Air India flight last November, told a Delhi court Friday that the complainant urinated on herself because of a medical condition and then blamed him for the act. The complainant later issued a statement and called the allegations false and derogatory. Mishra’s lawyer, senior […]

The Karnataka High Court Thursday permitted the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to allow Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to put up temporary hoardings, signages and structures for a publicity campaign for the upcoming Aero India-2023, to be held from February 13 to 17. The order was passed after hearing a PIL filed by Mayige Gowda […]

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission of Chandigarh has directed an air hostess training institute to pay Rs 1.64 lakh to an Ambala resident, who was told by an instructor at the institute that she cannot become an air hostess due to the burn scar on her right wrist. The complainant alleged that she approached […]

OF THE five Indians on board the Yeti Airlines Kathmandu-Pokhara flight which crashed on Sunday, four — Abhishek Kushwaha (25), Vishal Sharma (25), Anil Kumar Rajbhar (25) and Sonu Jaiswal (30) — were friends, all residents of Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh. No details are available yet on the fifth person, Sanjay Jaiswal. Ghazipur District […]

Nepalese rescuers resumed their search on Monday for four persons still missing after a passenger plane with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in the resort city of Pokhara, killing at least 68 people onboard. The accident took place on Sunday, the Himalayan nation’s deadliest […]

At least five among the 72 people who died in the Yeti Airlines crash in Pokhara were Indians. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members when it crashed a few kilometres from its destination about 20 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu for Pokhara. Besides Indians, there were other foreign nationals […]

At least 68 people died after an ATR 72 aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara at 11 am on Sunday. According to preliminary reports, the aircraft, with 68 passengers and four crew members onboard, crashed about 20 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu for Pokhara, a few kilometres […]

At least 68 people lost their lives Sunday after an ATR 72 aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines with 72 people on board, including four crew members, crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara at 11 am. According to preliminary reports, the aircraft, with 68 passengers onboard, crashed about 20 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu for Pokhara, […]

At least 68 people were dead after a Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft carrying 72 on board — including five Indians — crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara around 11 am on Sunday. Reports said the aircraft, with 68 passengers and four crew on board, crashed a few kilometres from its destination about 20 minutes after it […]