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The Boeing 737-524, a Sriwijaya Air flight, had taken off from Jakarta. Officials said they believed they found part of the wreckage. Navy divers in Jakarta preparing for a search and rescue operation after Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday. Credit... Ed Wray/Getty Images…

On 3 January, a Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-200 freighter (registered TC-LJN) operated cargo flight TK6220 between Istanbul Atatürk (ISL), Turkey, and Almaty (ALA), Kazakhstan. During take-off from runway 05, however, the aircraft struck a flock of birds.  The pilots entered a holding pattern and returned back to Istanbul Atatürk,…

(CNN) — This was a heinous year for the aviation industry. Absolutely horrendous, in fact. But among the gloom there were some lighter, crazier, even hopeful moments that captured our imaginations during the dark times. Here are the wildest. 1. A tiny airport in Alaska became the world's busiest Alaska's Anchorage…

On the morning before Christmas Eve, a pilot took to the skies to deliver a homage to the vaccine to be rolled out across the country starting Sunday. During a flight over the south of Germany, they drew an intricate path in the shape of a syringe, complete…

It's not every day you see a plane emergencyslide in use. It's even less likely you'll see two passengers use it to slide out of a plane with their dog before the flight takes off. But on Monday, that happened at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York. "During…

A new, more infectious strain of the COVID-19 virus forced multiple governments worldwide to impose temporal flight bans to and out of the United Kingdom (UK). On December 21, 2020, more than 25 European and non-European countries announced air travel restrictions due to the spread of a new…

Air New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings Boeing 747 is parked in Spain, waiting to take its final flight across the Atlantic to one of the US’s aircraft graveyards. However, all hope is not yet lost. A group of aviation enthusiasts is seeking investors to bring the iconic…

SEATTLE — Boeing Co is hiring up to 160 pilots to be embedded at airlines in its latest bid to ensure its 737 MAX has a smooth comeback after a 20-month safety ban, according to a recruitment document seen by Reuters and people familiar with the move. The…

Cheap, convenient flying has become entangled in our economy and in the lifestyle of many well-off people but we can't keep ignoring the carbon emissions of the aviation industry On 2 December 2020, New Zealand became the sixteenth country in the world to declare a climate emergency, triggering a…

A Eurowings A319 returned to London Heathrow and evacuated passengers onto a taxiway on Monday. The crew decided to take this action after reporting smoke in the cabin, forcing them to don oxygen masks. No passengers or crew were harmed during the incident, which took place 15 minutes…

The flying car was only recently only in the realms of science fiction but is now becoming a reality. Boeing is one of the leading companies in developing what are now known as electric air taxis. These autonomous, multi-rotor passenger air vehicles will revolutionize the way we travel. Boeing’s…

Despite previously reigning in its 747-8 network as more efficient aircraft were available, Lufthansa is once again expanding its network. The airline will launch flights to Nanjing with the aircraft type this weekend. Lufthansa is set to fly the Boeing 747-8 to Nanjing from Sunday. Photo: Tom Boon –…