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  Manchester-bound Ryanair plane evacuated over 'bomb threat'

  World | May 16, 2016 9:15 IST

  Stockholm: A Ryanair plane headed for Manchester, Britain, was evacuated before takeoff due to a bomb scare at Rygge airport outside Oslo, police said. The plane was evacuated Sunday due to the “suspicious behaviour” of

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  Defunct Air India's aircraft crashes in Hyderabad

  India | April 10, 2016 14:24 IST

  Hyderabad: A training aircraft of Air India collapsed and suffered partial damage while being shifted by a crane from Begumpet airport to a training institute here today. The aircraft (Airbus A-320 model) belonging to

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  British Muslim family stopped from boarding flight to US

  World | December 23, 2015 18:47 IST

  London: British Muslim family heading to Disneyland was barred from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at Gatwick airport here, prompting a lawmaker to seek Prime Minister David Cameron's intervention into the

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  Turkey to hand over pilot's body to Moscow

  World | November 29, 2015 18:06 IST

  Ankara: The body of the pilot of the downed Russian plane will be handed over to Moscow, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday.The body of the Russian will be prepared in accordance with

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  Russia confirms its warplane shot down by Turkey

  World | November 24, 2015 19:32 IST

  Ankara: Amidst the war on dreaded terrorist organisation Islamic State in Syria, NATO ally Turkey today shot down a Russian Su-24 warplaneTurkish defence authorities have said that its airspace was violated and ignored repeated warnings.

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  Relatives torn over possible 1st debris from missing MH370

  World | July 30, 2015 15:54 IST

  Kuala Lampur, Malaysia:  Jacquita Gomes is torn about whether to believe that plane debris found more than 16 months after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is the first concrete evidence that her

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  China manufactures first electric plane

  World | June 19, 2015 12:46 IST

  Beijing: Chinese authorities have manufactured the world's first electric plane, a media report said on Friday.The "BX1E" has a 14.5-metre wingspan and a maximum payload of 230 kg. It can fly at an altitude of

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  Plane crash on Mexican highway leaves five dead

  World | June 03, 2015 7:58 IST

  Mexico City: Five people were killed after a small plane crashed on a highway in Mexico, officials said.The aircraft crashed onto a highway connecting the country's capital Mexico City with the central state of Queretaro,

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  Disaster averted, narrow escape for Delhi Daredevils team

  Cricket | May 08, 2015 22:36 IST

  Mumbai: A Raipur-bound IndiGo plane from Kolkata carrying 167 passengers, including the Delhi Daredevils IPL team, vacated the runway in the "nick of time" as another flight, a Jet Airways plane from Mumbai had landed

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  A revolutionary scanner that can examine an entire plane

  April 28, 2015 12:59 IST

  New Delhi: A device has been created that can scan an entire plane for contraband, bombs and weapons in one go.Romanian company MB Telecom has come out with this revolutionary idea -Roboscan 2M Aeria which

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  Panic grips flight passengers as fresh tremors rock Nepal

  India | April 26, 2015 17:12 IST

  New Delhi: Panic and anxiety gripped passengers, mostly Nepali citizens, on board a SpiceJet flight that had to return to Delhi halfway from Kathmandu after fresh tremors in the Himalayan country on Sunday forced the

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  Indian Air Force plane brings back 55 stranded Indians

  India | April 26, 2015 9:32 IST

  New Delhi/Kathmandu: An Indian Air Force aircraft tonight brought back 55 stranded Indians, including four infants, from the earthquake-hit Nepal.  The aircraft C-130J, which had earlier flown National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) members and relief

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  An airline's CEO unique solution to avoid tragedies: Get married!

  World | April 21, 2015 18:52 IST

  Temel Kotil, the CEO of Turkish Airlines, is making headlines by recommending marriage as the best way to avoid future murder-suicide plane crashes. The CEO has urged all single pilots to get married and has

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  Asiana passenger plane skids off runway in Japan, 22 injured

  World | April 15, 2015 9:37 IST

  Osaka: A passenger plane of South Korea's Asiana Airlines skidded off the runway when landing at the Hiroshima Airport in Japan late Tuesday, leaving at least 22 people slightly injured.The Airbus A320 ran halfway through

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  Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb threat

  World | April 13, 2015 8:00 IST

  Berlin: The threat against flight 826 to Milan's Malpensa airport was received Sunday evening. The tower in Cologne alerted the pilot of the Airbus A320, which was taxiing toward the runway at the time, Germanwings

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  Indian Air Force plane reaches Djibouti to bring back Indians

  India | April 01, 2015 13:21 IST

  New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said that an Indian Air Force transport aircraft has reached Djibouti to bring back Indians who are on way to the African nation after they were evacuated from neighbouring

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  GermanWings Crash: Prosecutor says co-pilot purposely crashed plane

  World | March 26, 2015 18:25 IST

  Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin says pounding could be heard on the door during the final minutes as alarms sounded. He said the co-pilot "voluntarily" refused to open the door, and his breathing was normal throughout

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  Searchers resume hunt for bodies from AirAsia jet

  World | December 31, 2014 8:58 IST

  Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia : A massive hunt for the 162 victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 resumed in the Java Sea on Wednesday, focusing on an area of the aqua-colored waters where the first bodies and

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  AirAsia plane has tire problem in Philippines

  World | December 29, 2014 14:16 IST

  Manila, Philippines: An AirAsia Zest plane with 184 people on board developed a tire problem in the central Philippine city of Tagbilaran, prompting the airline, which is partly owned by AirAsia Philippines, to cancel the

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  Deploy CAT-3 complaint plane, crew during fog: DGCA to airlines

  India | December 24, 2014 22:27 IST

  New Delhi: The civil aviation regulator has ordered all the airlines to deploy CAT-III complaint plane and crew trained to fly under low visibility conditions while operating in and out of IGI airport here in