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On January 2, a Japan Airlines vessel collided with a Coast Guard plane. The plane landed at Tokyo airport, 5 people died, 379 were evacuated. This was reported by the BBC, citing the NHK TV channel. An Airbus A350 taking off from Sapporo collided with a Coast Guard plane. …羽田の航空機火災、胴体着陸で機体を擦りながら滑走中に炎が上がったかな…？ pic.twitter.com/UmS4lUk9SD – 棒振り (@bouhuri) January […]
A man without documents was found in the landing gear compartment of an airplane at Paris Orly airport. He flew to France from Algeria. About this he writes The Guardian. The man is about 20 years old and was taken to the hospital with severe hypothermia. He is in a serious condition. Commercial airplanes fly […]
The newest American aircraft will be tested at temperatures ranging from -31°C to 43°C. The test will check the operation of the power plant, hydraulics, fuel system, electrical components, etc. The U.S. Air Force’s newest T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft has begun the most important phase of testing at the McKinley Climate Laboratory at Eglin […]
A Tu-204 cargo plane caught fire during takeoff in Ulan-Ude, Russia. The aircraft’s left engine caught fire. This was reported by BAZA. “The Aerostar cargo plane was supposed to fly from Ulan-Ude to Zhangzhou. However, a few minutes after takeoff, the left engine of the Tu-204 caught fire,” the statement said. The pilots reported this […]
On December 3, the world’s largest aircraft, Stratolaunch’s Roc, made its maiden flight with a new type of payload: the Stratolaunch Talon-A hypersonic test drone. The company said in a statement. According to the company, the main purpose of the flight was to evaluate the Stratolaunch Talon-A (TA-1) propulsion system and, more generally, to see […]
On the Minnesota highway, the driver of a Kia Soul was driving carefully, following all traffic rules, but the trouble came not from other drivers, but straight from the sky… Strange as it may sound, the car was hit by a light aircraft that was making an emergency landing. On November 28, the pilot of […]
Today, on November 28, the first plane that will use only environmentally friendly fuel for a transatlantic flight will take off from London to New York. It is 88% fueled by waste oil and 12% by waste corn, according to the BBC and Reuters. The flight across the Atlantic will take more than eight hours […]
In the United States, pilots were forced to return and land the plane because of a horse that broke free and ran out of the cargo hold. This was reported by the Mirror. An Air Atlanta Icelandic plane was forced to return to New York after a horse broke free in the cargo hold. The […]
This is the fifth time since the beginning of the war that Russian air defense has shot down its own plane. A Russian plane crashed near Mariupol. The video of the crash site was published by Telegram channels. “At the rate our valiant air defense is working, we will soon be left without aviation.” Russian […]
On Wednesday, August 23, a small plane crashed in the Tver region of Russia. According to Russian media reports, the plane belonged to Yevgeniy Pryzhyn, the head of the so-called Wagner PMC. What is known about Prigozhin’s alleged death: Rosaviatsiya officially confirmed that Yevgeny Prygozhin and Dmitry Utkin (known by his call sign Wagner, Prygozhin’s […]