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A man died at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after being pulled into the engine of a KLM Cityhopper passenger plane. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon, when the Embraer E190 aircraft was preparing to take off. He was supposed to take flight KL1341 to Billund in Denmark. According to footage published by the Dutch public broadcaster […]
There are many airports around the world that force pilots to put their years of training to good use. However, there is one runway that is covered by the sea twice a day. In the UK, there is an airport with a “disappearing runway” that can only handle one flight. This was reported by The […]
About 450 passengers on a Nordwind flight waiting to fly to Moscow from Sochi airport were trapped in a malfunctioning airplane. In addition to the fact that the Boeing 777-300ER could not take off, it also lost power, and without air conditioning, people were practically in a “bathhouse”, desperately trying to cool themselves at least […]
The first videos showing the reactions of residents of Russian-occupied Crimea to the missile strike that hit the military airfield in Saki have been published on social media. According to the Security Service of Ukraine, the attack destroyed or damaged about 12 aircraft (Su-24 and Su-30) and the Pantsyr-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system. In […]
In Poland, a woman was denied entry to an airplane and fined because of a joke at the airport. When security officials asked her about her luggage, the Polish woman decided to claim that she was allegedly carrying weapons. A 49-year-old woman from the Pomeranian Voivodeship, who made a bad joke at Lech Walesa Airport […]
South Korean company Hyundai Engineering and Construction will join the reconstruction of Boryspil International Airport after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war. This was reported by The Korea Herald. Under the agreement, Hyundai E&C will rebuild the airport’s landing strips and a new cargo terminal at Boryspil Airport. The company is currently conducting a feasibility […]
Lviv Airport could resume operations as part of the humanitarian corridor, said Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, in early June. “This is one of the important things we are looking forward to. We hope that since there is now a grain corridor, there can be a humanitarian [air corridor] provided by […]
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, during an appearance on the “Breakfast with 1+1” TV show, expressed his opinion on Eurocontrol’s forecast, according to which flights over Ukraine will be restricted until 2029. Kuleba noted that if Ukraine had F-16 fighters, it would have the opportunity to open an airport in Lviv. The minister stated that […]
Google Maps has published updated satellite photos of Kyiv (Zhulyany) airport. They show what this capital’s gateway looks like after the start of the Russian invasion. The runway in Zhulyany is blocked along the entire perimeter by buses, gasoline tankers, snowplows and even luggage carts. The blocking of the end of the runway with the […]
A Radio Svoboda journalist showed what remained of the legendary airport in Chornobayivka near Kherson, which was occupied by the Russian army for 8 months. ‘It’s a chest of metal and burned equipment,’ he described what he saw. The shots they took are truly impressive: around dozens of units of destroyed equipment of the occupying […]