New Delhi: A relief plane, with a technical team on board, reached the Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday afternoon after an Air India plane made an emergency landing there at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi when it was forced to land after all its three hydraulic systems failed. Local media reports said all 130 passengers on...
02:03 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Le Bourget (France): French air accident investigators say a combination of mistakes by inadequately trained pilots and faulty equipment caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The BEA air accident investigation agency is recommending better training for pilots and stricter plane certification rules as a result of its three-year probe into the crash of Flight 447. The report lists a...
07:15 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: Indian actress Freida Pinto will be seen romancing Batman star Christian Bale in director Terrence Malick's next - Knight of Cups. The film is a beautiful tale of a man is in search of love and truth, shooting has just started and Bale and Pinto were seen shooting beautiful romantic sequences at the Santa Monica Beach, said a statement. Also starring Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett, Knight of...
07:00 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Beijing: Passengers and crew on a plane in China's far-western region of Xinjiang foiled a hijacking attempt by six people on Friday, a government website said. The Tianshan news portal said the hijacking attempt was made just after the plane took off from Hotan in southern Xinjiang for the regional capital of Urumqi. The regional government news site said the six suspects were detained by police after the plane returned...
03:52 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Jakarta(Indonesia): An Indonesian Air Force plane has crashed into a housing complex in the capital and houses were reportedly burning. Alwi, an official at the East Jakarta Fire Brigade said the Fokker 27 turboprop aircraft crashed on June 21 near a street within Halim Perdanakusuma air base. Firefighters were dispatched to the site. Media reports quoted witnesses as saying at least eight houses were burning. ...
02:32 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Jaipur: A foreign chartered aircraft flying from Muscat to Dhaka was detained overnight by authorities in Jaipur after it entered restricted area over Jodhpur airbase but was released on Monday following questioning of its pilot. The aircraft with four crew members on board flew over Jodhpur Airforce area without permission before its scheduled landing at the Sanganer Airport in Jaipur for refuelling on Sunday evening, officiating Director, Sanganer airport, P...
08:32 AM, Jun 12, 2012
Aviation Safety Consultant Captain Mohan Ranganathan says the army official must be penalisd. ...
10:37 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, aviation rules were being flouted by a senior Army official. The incident took place on a GoAir flight from Leh to Jammu on Wednesday when Lt General Ravi Dastane entered the cockpit during the flight. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has reacted to the CNN-IBN report grounding both the pilots. The Chief Safety Officer has also been summoned by the DGCA. He...
08:26 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: A rare celestial spectacle, transit of Venus, the last for this century, unfolded in the morning sky all across the country on Wednesday, enthralling the astro enthusiasts. Scientists and amateur astronomers alike celebrated the arrival of the Transit of Venus, peering up to the skies to watch a dark black spot slide over the surface of the Sun. The awesome spectacle was visible all over the country, including...
09:32 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Honolulu: None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again. From the US to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. The next one won't be for another 105 years. "If you can...
07:29 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates June 5 of every year as World Environment Day (WED). It was started in 1972 and is intended to raise global awareness about the need to take act to better and save the environment. The date of June 5 comes from the day that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm in 1972. It continued till June...
10:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two Indians were among the 193 victims of Sunday's plane crash in Nigeria. One was the co-pilot, Mahendra Singh Rathore, and the other was Kerala engineer Rijo Eldos. The families are hoping to get the bodies soon, though rescue workers have been able to find just about 130 bodies. An initial probe claims that the pilot of the Dana Airline flight sounded an SOS of engine failure right...
08:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft....
07:04 AM, Jun 04, 2012
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12:58 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Abuja: At least 153 people are feared to have died when a passenger plane carrying them crashed into a building in a residential area of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Sunday. The aircraft belonging to Dana air caught fire immediately sending billows of thick black smoke into the air at the Iju neighbourhood where it went down. Civil Aviation Authority officials believed there were little chances of finding any survivors....
10:53 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Lagos: A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos state emergency manager Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu. The Dana Air flight was taking passengers from Lagos to Abuja, said Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Federal emergency management confirmed the crash in a neighborhood just outside the airport and said that its...
10:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Los Angeles: It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus." It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities - all for a chance...
03:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
CHENNAI : Overlooking the security cut-off time of an hour for VIPs may be an unwritten rule with most private airlines, but an incident at the Thoothukudi airport on Monday showed how hazardous it can be. According to airline sources, Thoothukudi constituency DMK MP SR Jayadurai verbally abused and almost assaulted the manager of Kingfisher Airlines there, for not holding his flight until he arrived. As he was a local...
08:13 AM, May 22, 2012
Islamabad: Two trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force collided mid-air and crashed into a thickly populated area in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing four pilots and injuring at least five persons on the ground, officials and witnesses said. Residents of Rashkai area in Nowshera district said the aircraft collided before plunging into two houses. The walls and roofs of the houses collapsed and debris from the aircraft lay...
11:51 AM, May 17, 2012
