Category: Civil Aviation

Five aircraft of IndiGo and GO FIRST have been damaged at the Ahmedabad airport due to an unexpected thunderstorm, aviation industry sources said on Thursday. Three aircraft of IndiGo with registration numbers VT- IVO, VT-ITD and VT-IVQ and two aircraft of GO FIRST with registration numbers VT-WGV and VT-WJG were damaged on Wednesday evening, they […]

Three pilots of the Indian Air Force had a narrow escape when the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mark III, in which they were travelling on Monday made a ‘hard landing’ at a forward location near Daulat Baig Oldie on the Depsang plains in Northern Ladakh, abutting China. ‘Hard landing’ is a phrase used in military […]

New Ddelhi: Three IAF pilots had a narrow escape on Monday when their helicopter made a ‘hard landing’near Daulat Baig Oldie in Ladakh, abutting China. ‘Hard landing’ implies uncontrolled landing from very low altitude. — TNS

Airlines can operate only 50 per cent of their pre-COVID domestic flights from June 1 instead of 80 per cent permitted currently, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Friday. The decision has been taken “in view of the sudden surge in the number of active COVID-19 cases across the country, decrease in passenger traffic and […]

To meet the shortfall of specialized staff required for carrying out safety oversight functions in the civil aviation sector, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to employ additional inspectors from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on a secondment basis. DGCA is responsible for ensuring that Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) services […]

Air India’s passenger service system provider SITA faced a sophisticated cyberattack in February leading to leak of personal data of certain number of the national carrier’s flyers, an official statement said on Friday. Personal data — including name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information and credit card data — which was registered […]

Canada has extended the ban on direct flights from India and Pakistan by one more month until June 21 in a bid to arrest the spread of new variants of the Covid-19, according to an official announcement. The ban on flights from India and Pakistan was extended as the previous 30-day ban, first imposed on […]

Air India said it was airlifting 35 tonnes of zeolite mineral used in oxygen production plants on two flights from Rome to Bengaluru on Saturday. India has been badly hit by the second wave of the novel coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under the shortage of health workers, vaccines, oxygen and […]

The IAF airlifted men and equipment from Bathinda in Punjab to Gujarat on Saturday as part of the government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of Cyclone Tauktae, which is raging off the western coast of India. One IL-76 strategic freighter airlifted 127 personnel of the National Disaster Relief Force and 11 tonnes of cargo from […]

Lufthansa said it will operate its 10 weekly flights between India and Germany via Bahrain instead of Dubai from Sunday due to recent restrictions imposed by the UAE government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The German airline said in a statement, “This change was made due to new UAE regulations that restrict flights […]

As there is spike in Covid-19 cases in the city, the industrial capital of the state, majority of the people have shelved their travel plans leading to suspension of several long route trains. The pandemic has also cast its shadow on lone Alliance Air flight, operating between Ludhiana and New Delhi. Though the reasons for […]

Two small airplanes collided in the air near Denver, leaving one aircraft nearly ripped in half and forcing the other’s pilot to deploy a parachute. Remarkably, both planes landed safely and no one was injured, officials said. Both planes were getting ready to land at a small regional airport in a Denver suburb on Wednesday […]