London: A flight to a Spanish island was diverted to Portugal after a mid-air heated argument broke out between five family members, who were then evicted. The argument between passengers David Laughton, 39, his partner Sarah Wilson, 28, and their children became so heated that the pilot, en route to Spanish island Lanzarote, was forced to land in Portugal and ordered them off the plane. The couple, from Hartlepool, Cleveland,...
02:50 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: After a four-year delay, Air India's first of the 27 long-haul Boeing 787 Dreamliner would land here on Saturday with the airline taking its delivery at the US aircraft-maker's Charleston plant on Thursday. The new 256-seater aircraft would touch down at Delhi's IGI Airport on September 8, an Air India spokesperson said, adding that the plane was received by Capt Soman and Capt Amitabh Singh at the South...
07:20 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is expected to be inducted in Air India's fleet shortly, is "fundamentally the right plane" for the airline's turnaround, a senior Boeing official said on Tuesday. Three of these sophisticated aircraft, made out of composite carbon material, are ready at the Boeing facility in South Carolina, US, and a team of Air India officers, including the crew, is already there to take...
03:51 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Boeing Co raised its forecast for the Indian plane market on Tuesday, saying the South Asian country would need 1,450 new aircraft worth $175 billion by 2031. Last year, the US planemaker had forecast demand at 1,320 planes up to 2030, worth $150 billion. "India will have the highest passenger traffic growth in the world, higher than even China's in the next 20 years," Dinesh Keskar, Boeing's senior...
11:38 PM, Sep 04, 2012
A sampling of the outpouring of love and memories from the Hollywood and sports worlds following the death of Michael Clarke Duncan, many of them on Twitter: - "I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike. He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile. He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned." - Tom...
11:34 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Los Angeles: Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in The Green Mile and such other box office hits as Armageddon, Planet of the Apes and Kung Fu Panda, is dead at age 54. Duncan died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his...
10:59 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Seattle: Richard Bach, the author of the 1970s best-selling novella "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" among other spiritually oriented books rooted in themes of flight and self-discovery, was in serious condition on Saturday after his small plane crashed. The SeaRey single-engine amphibian aircraft clipped power lines on Friday at 4:30 pm about three miles (5 kilometers) west of Friday Harbor Airport, according to Ian Gregor, a public affairs manager for the Federal...
04:27 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Godhra: Religious guru Asaram Bapu and four others had a miraculous escape when their helicopter crashed just ahead of landing at a local college in Godhra on Wednesday, police said. They sustained minor injuries in the incident, police said. "The chartered helicopter Asaram Bapu and his followers were travelling in developed a technical snag prior to landing at Godhra Science college and fell from a considerable height," police officials said....
09:21 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Amsterdam: Dutch media are reporting that fears a passenger plane had been hijacked en route from Malaga in Spain to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport appear unfounded and a passenger says there is no hostage situation. The plane, from Spanish carrier Vueling, was parked at a remote corner of Schiphol, about two kilometers (1.5 miles) from the main terminal, surrounded by security personnel and several ambulances, according to photographers at the scene....
06:33 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Addressing questions raised over the process of selecting Rafale fighter planes, Government is going ahead with the procurement of 126 French combat aircraft and effort is being made to complete the deal within this financial year. Contract negotiations for the multi-billion dollar deal will resume soon, Government sources said. Questions had been raised over the process by an MP besides some other quarters but a committee of independent...
05:43 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Authorities say a small plane has crash-landed in a business district in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, striking two cars and injuring the two people on board. Nobody on the ground was hurt. Los Angeles Police Officer Norma Eisenman says the plane went down just before noon Saturday in the Pacoima area, not far from Whiteman Airport. Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott says one person on board was...
11:40 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: After a delay of nearly five years, the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner is likely to arrive in New Delhi next week with Air India planning to take delivery of the aircraft on Tuesday. "A total of three aircraft are ready for delivery at the Boeing's South Carolina factory. The first Dreamliner will take off from the US and is likely to arrive here on Tuesday," airline sources said....
12:49 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Patna: An Indigo plane was struck by a bird at Patna airport on Thursday morning just before take off, sources said. The flight was Hyderabad bound. It was grounded soon after the bird hit. ...
09:36 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Air Force is planning to deploy six mid-air refuelling tanker aircraft at Panagarh air base in West Bengal, a step that will boost the striking range of its fighter planes like Su-30 MKIs based along the China border. IAF is expected to soon award the contract for procuring six mid-air refuelling tanker planes for which Russian-origin Ilyushin-78 and European A-330 MRTT are in the race, sources told...
05:17 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Los Angeles: A small executive plane carrying four people made an emergency landing on a southern Californian highway. Dodging oncoming traffic, the aircraft in an apparent distress landed on Interstate 15 in Escondido, about 48 kilometres north of San Diego. 'Seattle Times' quoting Californian highway patrol said the aircraft managed to safely park on the highway and there were no injuries to the occupants. But they said two lanes of...
04:53 PM, Jul 23, 2012
London: Titan, Saturn's largest moon is "a weirdly Earth-like place" when it comes to geology, astronomers have claimed. Titan boasts landscapes shaped by the flow of rivers, though they are rivers of liquid methane, not of water. And, like Earth, the surface of Titan is surprisingly free of craters, implying that geological activity is constantly reshaping the moon, as also happens here. "It's a weirdly Earth-like place," Taylor Perron, assistant...
03:50 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: With bird strikes costing the aviation industry millions of dollars, plane manufacturers are now working on a system that will be installed in the aircraft to scare off the avians. Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is developing a system under its Bird Impact Repellent and Deterrent sYstem (BIRDY) programme that will scare away almost every species of birds. "Challenge is to develop a system that is effective for large number...
09:55 AM, Jul 22, 2012
London: Pot-bellied pigs, miniature horses and monkeys could be allowed to travel with you on planes under new British transport rules. The guidelines are part of a draft manual on equality for disabled people travelling on commercial passenger planes, Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Animals should be allowed on flights if they are used for "emotional support" by their owners, the manual states. Transportation officers would have to determine whether...
05:01 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is poised to become a blip on the worlds defence map soon when the Tata Advanced Systems unit will start rolling out spare parts for the C-130J, the special operations aircraft made by the US that is presently in service in 15 countries. The Hyderabad factory will become operational over the next year now that Tata Advanced Systems has entered into a joint venture with Lockheed Martin. The...
11:03 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: US aircraft engine maker Pratt and Whitney on Monday said it has delivered the first four F117 engines to Boeing to power strategic heavylift C-17 Globemaster III transport planes being manufactured for the Indian Air Force. India has signed a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal worth over $4.1 billion with the US government for procuring 10 C-17s. The delivery of the planes will start from next year. "Pratt...
01:09 AM, Jul 10, 2012
