A pilot couple killed in air crashes in Nepal – 16 years apart
In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger…
UPDATE | Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash
Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane…
INCIDENT | British Airways Boeing 777 Emergency Slide Deployed During Pushback
A spokeswoman for British Airways confirmed that the emergency slide was accidentally inflated rather than being activated in response to an actual emergency aboard a Boeing 777-200 headed for Lagos,…
Boeing 737 MAX makes first passenger flight in China since March 2019
A Boeing Co 737 MAX made its first passenger flight in China in nearly four years on Friday, marking a major milestone in the U.S. planemaker’s attempt to rebuild its…
Australian low-cost airline Bonza obtains AOC and will soon be selling tickets
Australia’s newest low-cost startup Bonza has obtained an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the country’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and will soon be selling tickets. The AOC, which was…
Southwest CEO, claims responsibility of meltdown, all options ‘on the table’ he said
Southwest Airlines Co is looking at all options to ensure the operational meltdown it suffered last month is not repeated, Chief Executive Bob Jordan said on Thursday. The Dallas-based carrier…
Shareholders sue Southwest Airlines over flight meltdown
Shareholders filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Co on Thursday, accusing the carrier of fraudulently concealing problems that led last month to an operational meltdown and more than 15,000 flight…
INCIDENT | Power bank bursts into flames on Scoot flight, two passengers injured: video
Two passengers were injured on a Scoot flight set for take-off from Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan for Singapore on Tuesday, reportedly due to a portable charger catching fire. The…
Russia’s Aeroflot bought 10 Boeing 777 from Russian bank VEB, sources say
An Irish lessor that sold 10 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft to Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot last year was a local subsidiary of state controlled Russian development bank VEB, two sources familiar…
Airlines hope for return to normal Thursday after FAA outage snarls U.S. travel
The U.S. aviation sector was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday following a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced…