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  39 incidents of aircraft engine damage in last 4 yrs: Government

  India | July 17, 2019 20:42 IST

  Thirty-nine incidents of damage to aircraft engines during flights were reported in the last four years, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday.

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  Vistara pilot issues 'Mayday call' due to low-fuel near Lucknow airport, DGCA grounds him

  India | July 16, 2019 23:58 IST

  Aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday grounded a pilot who issued a 'Mayday' distress call due to low-fuel near Lucknow airport on Monday while operating a Mumbai-Delhi flight.

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  Missile manufacturer BDL to have Rs 25K crore orders

  India | July 16, 2019 15:33 IST

  Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), a defence public sector undertaking, will have an order book of Rs 25,000 crore for the next five years, including Rs 8,084 crore orders currently on hand.

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  Air India team pulls back stuck SpiceJet plane

  India | July 03, 2019 22:56 IST

  The Boeing 737 plane of SpiceJet that has been partially stuck on the runway and the nearby grassy area at the city airport since Monday night, has been pulled back from the spot, but has not yet been brought back to the runway, a source said.

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  75 flights cancelled at Mumbai airport

  India | July 03, 2019 16:43 IST

  "A total of 75 flights have been canceled till late this evening. While 40 arrivals have been canceled by various operators, 35 flights that depart from here are also not being operated due to partial operations," the official said. "Besides cancellations, the operations are going on smoothly."

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  Air India Express flight veers off taxiway, all passengers safe

  India | June 30, 2019 21:53 IST

  All passengers and crew on board the Dubai-Mangalore flight are safe, the airport and the airlines said in separate statements.

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  GoAir inducts 50th plane, to add one aircraft each month

  Business | June 27, 2019 16:10 IST

  The Wadia group-run airline said it is on course to touch the 100-million-passenger-mark over the next two years.

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  IndiGo flight from Delhi faces nose wheel steering fault on landing in Mumbai: Officials

  India | June 23, 2019 19:39 IST

  In an official statement, IndiGo said the landing was as per schedule and the aircraft was towed for further inspection by a technical team.

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  India successfully conducts maiden flight test of unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft

  Science | June 12, 2019 16:11 IST

  India successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) from a base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday.  

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  Pakistan decides to let PM Modi's plane fly over its airspace to Bishkek

  World | June 10, 2019 23:26 IST

  Pakistan on Monday decided in principle to let Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan where he has to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 13-14, where his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan would also be present.

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  Vistara leases six aircraft from BOC Aviation to accelerate domestic expansion

  Business | May 24, 2019 17:20 IST

  Vistara announced Friday it has leased six aircraft from Singapore-based BOC Aviation to boost its domestic growth and will deploy them to meet the "sudden drop" in capacity in the market.

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  IAF aircraft overshoots runway at Mumbai airport

  India | May 08, 2019 12:09 IST

  Due to the incident, aircraft movement was diverted to the secondary runway, the official of the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said today.

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  World's largest plane successfully completes maiden flight

  Business | April 14, 2019 6:52 IST

  Achieving a maximum speed of 189 miles (302.4 km) per hour, the plane flew for 2.5 hours over the Mojave Desert at altitudes up to 17,000 feet.

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  IndiGo Delhi-Mumbai flight makes mid-air 'turn back'

  India | April 12, 2019 15:39 IST

  The A320 NEO aircraft operated by IndiGo has faced a series of problems earlier with engine vibration being one of them.

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  Air passengers feel the pinch as ticket prices soar almost 100 per cent

  India | March 14, 2019 17:10 IST

  Spot fares of Mumbai-Delhi, Mumbai-Chennai, Chennai-Delhi, Delhi-Kolkata, Kolkata-Mumbai and other key Indian cities have rocketed as several airlines have canceled many flights following the DGCA’s order of grounding Boeing 737 Max 8 jumbos from the Indian airspace. Despite DGCA preparing contingency plans, passengers are being forced to shell out much more than usual for air travel.

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  Maharashtra: Trainee aircraft crashes in Pune, pilot injured

  India | February 05, 2019 13:54 IST

  The trainee pilot, who got injured, was rushed to a hospital in Baramati.

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  Russian maritime reconnaissance aircraft enters Alaskan Air Defence identification Zone, confirms US

  World | September 22, 2018 9:07 IST

  "The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace North of Alaska and at no time did the aircraft enter sovereign United States or Canadian airspace," NORAD, said in a statement on Saturday.

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  2-seater passenger aircraft in India? Wait for 2019!

  India | September 07, 2018 23:27 IST

  The aircraft is expected to be ready by 2019 for its first flight and will be certified by the regulatory authority Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) by March 2020.  

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  IndiGo grounds few A320 Neo aircraft, awaits spare engines

  India | August 24, 2018 7:28 IST

  Budget passenger carrier IndiGo has grounded some of its A320 Neo aircraft due to non-availability of spare engines from Pratt and Whitney.

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  Government sets up two task force for making aircraft, UAV's

  India | August 06, 2018 14:16 IST

  The government has set up two task force to prepare the roadmap for manufacturing aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in India