Air traffic was disrupted across Florida when a SpaceX Starship, a prototype of the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars, disintegrated during its latest test flight. For the second consecutive time, the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built malfunctioned. It started spinning out of control after…
A FedEx cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport with one of its engines on fire after it struck a bird while leaving the airport, officials said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said there were no reported…
Raghav Chadha and ‘Udaan Yatri Cafe’ menu at Chennai Airport NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha welcomed the launch of the second franchise of ‘Udaan Yatri Cafe‘ at Chennai Airport, calling it a commendable initiative. He also reaffirmed his commitment to advocating for public interest issues. To address the issue of overpriced food…
After the fall of Communism, Russia ushered in capitalism by selling off billions of dollars in state assets. Now, 30 years later, the Russian government is stepping up a wartime campaign to do the opposite: seizing private businesses, this time in the name of national security. In the last month, courts have ordered Russia’s largest…
The crash of a Delta Air Lines jet on Monday afternoon exacerbated travel disruptions at Toronto Pearson International Airport, which was already juggling a slew of flight delays and cancellations caused by major back-to-back snowstorms. Nearly 400 flights had been canceled at Pearson on Monday night, and more than 300 others were delayed at the…
Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed. The struggle, captured on videos and photos taken by passengers, began about 40 minutes into…
Clues emerging from the moments before the deadly collision Wednesday night between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet suggest that multiple layers of the country’s aviation safety apparatus failed, according to flight recordings, a preliminary internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration, interviews with current and former air traffic controllers and others…
A Jeju Air crash in South Korea last week, the deadliest plane accident in years, has stunned the global aviation industry. The country is regarded as a model for how to turn poor air safety practices into some of the world’s best. Three decades ago, South Korea had a dismal record of air safety. Its…
NEW DELHI: Airlines should not keep passengers seated inside aircraft for more than 90 minutes in case of fog-related delayed departures and they need to cancel flights delayed by over three hours. As peak winter fog season kicks in, the union aviation ministry on Wednesday listed out a do’s and don’ts for airlines and airport…
NEW DELHI: India is readying 13 new quarantine centres at international points of entry (airports). These centres will be used for isolating people travelling from other countries who have symptoms of a disease with the potential to cause an outbreak.According to health ministry sources, the building of quarantine centres is being funded by the PM…