The first of the five planes once in Bonza’s fleet has made its way overseas following the company’s failure to renegotiate its forced grounding. The Boeing 737, known lovingly as “Bruce”, departed for Honolulu on Thursday morning under the flight tag of Canada’s budget airline Flair, the aircraft’s co-owner. ItContinue Reading
A flight from the Netherlands to the US was forced to turn back to Amsterdam after maggots reportedly started falling from an overhead luggage bin. The Delta Air Lines flight took off from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol towards Detroit, Michigan about 10.30am on Tuesday (local time) but landed back at theContinue Reading
Analysis of domestic flight data in the United States puts the performance of Australia’s two largest airlines to shame and reveals passengers are being treated as mugs, experts say. Wednesday was the busiest day ever for air travel in America, with a staggering 51,332 domestic flights taking off and landingContinue Reading
A wreckage of a helicopter believed to have gone missing has been found off the coast of NSW. The debris was found in the waters near Hawks Nest, on the northern shores of Port Stephens, after a two-day search. But there are still no signs of the pilot, Ed Kraft,Continue Reading
Chilling audio has captured the final words from a pilot of a light aircraft that crashed near Canberra and the desperate attempts of air traffic controllers to reach him. The four-seat Cirrus SR22 took off from Canberra Airport at 2.40pm heading for Armidale in regional New South Wales and crashedContinue Reading
Investigators are attempting to piece together why one of the aircraft involved in a fatal mid-air collision north of Brisbane aborted a landing. A husband and wife in their sixties have been identified as the two people who died in the tragic incident above Caboolture Airfield on Friday. The pilotContinue Reading
Flight tracking services have revealed a “conga line” of planes travelling over Turkey — and there is a dark reason for the curious phenomenon. Leading flight tracker FlightRadar24 shared on Wednesday a real-time illustration of close to 50 planes, seemingly travelling nose-to-top as they crowded the Turkish airspace. Nearby SyriaContinue Reading
A FedEx cargo plane coming in to land at a Texas airport came within metres of colliding with a passenger jet taking off from the same runway on Saturday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it was “investigating a surface event at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Saturday, a possible runwayContinue Reading