Author: Crew Daily
The former Chairman and CEO of the Deutsche Lufthansa AG; Wolfgang Mayrhuber passed away on last Saturday, December 1st, 2018 at the age of 71 years old. He died as he was suffering from a long time serious illness. Carsten Spohr; Chairman of the Executive Board of the Lufthansa Group expressed his grief and sympathy on the behalf of the Lufthansa Group’s 134000 employees in the following statement. “Wolfgang Mayrhuber has served and shared the burden of responsibilities for the company for the past 45 years. All the employees of Lufthansa thank him for his great services to the Lufthansa…
On 30th November 2018, an Airbus A320 of the Frontier Airlines which took off from the Las Vegas Airport had its right-hand engine cowl broke loose right after its take off. The aircraft was headed on a flight number F9260 from Las Vegas Airport to the Tampa Airport. The pilots decided to turn back the aircraft to the airport ad 15 minutes after its departure the plane safely landed back on the Las Vegas Airport. Moments after making its landing, the airlines released a statement saying that “During the take-off of the flight no. 2690 headed from Las Vegas to…
Today we present to you a video of the U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flying at low level over Norway as it was on an exercise named Arctic Fighter Meet 2016. The Arctic Fighter meet of 2016 was held on in between May 23rd to May 27th and the 48th Fighter Wing from RAF Lakenheath, trained alongside the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish air forces during this exercise. This Arctic Fighter Meet provided the US Air Force pilots a rare opportunity to train with the following aircraft. “Nordics”: Finnish Air Force F-18s Royal Norwegian Air Force F-16s Swedish Air Force Gripens During…
On 20th May 2018 a Saudi Airlines flight no. SV3818 operated on an Onur Air Airbus A330-200 (TC-OCH) which was scheduled from Median to Dhaka was suddenly diverted to Jeddah when it suffered from a malfunction of the Noise Gear. The aircraft was able to fly and without the Nose Gear being deployed. Many of the passengers onboard were hurt but were safely evacuated from the aircraft on the runaway from emergency slides. The aircraft after taking off from Median was only 30 minutes into the flight when the pilots noticed the malfunction and decided to head for Jeddah. The…
Today we present to you an interesting video of an authorized runaway incursion of the UTair Boeing 767-300 from Moscow and Aerolíneas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 which happened in July of 2014 at the Barcelona Airport. According to the person who filmed this unique incident of the UTair Boeing 767-300 (VQ-BSX) from Moscow flight no. UT5187 said that the aircraft was on final runway 02 when suddenly the Aerolíneas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 (LV-FPV) crossed the runway while it was taxing towards the holding point of the runway R2. The Russian pilot of the Boeing 767-300 seeing the Airbus 340 crossing its…
On March 4th, 2014 a Malaysia Airlines flight no. MH370 was scheduled for an international flight from Kuala Lampoor international Airport, Malaysia and was headed towards its destination in Beijing Capital International Airport in China. However the flight mysteriously disappeared during its journey and still to this date after 4 years, not even the aircraft has been discovered, much less the passengers. The cause of this disappearance still remains unknown. However in January this year, two large pieces of an aircraft have been discovered from the bottom of the Indian Ocean this year and many are claiming that these are…
On November 28th, 2018; a brand new Airbus A321neo of the VietJet airline which was headed for ad domestic flight from Ho Chi Minh City airport towards the Buon Ma Thuot Airport in Vietnam lost both of its nose gear landing tires after it suffered from a hard landing. There were 207 passengers and crew members onboard the ship. Out of the 207 passengers, 6 got inured baldy and were immediately taken after evacuation. To evacuate the passengers from the plane, emergency slides were used. After the bad landing incident, emergency services immediately rushed on the scene. Upon landing the…
On November 27thg, 2018 Turkish Airlines banned all of its other cargo flights when they transported the Mosaic art collection which dates able to 2nd Century BC from Chicago to Istanbul. These missing Mosaic masterpieces were recovered from a museum located in Ohio, USA. Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism with extensive pressure was able to retrieve it from the USA and now these masterpieces will be put on a display at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum. Zeugma Mosaic Museum is also the world’s second largest Mosaic museum in the world located in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey. This precious and…
Today for our readers we have decided to introduce to you the military aircraft that is regarded as “The Fastest plane on Earth”. With this claim, only many of you might have realized that it is the famed “SR-71 Blackbird”. For our readers today we have decided to introduce to you some of the most fascinating facts about the Blackbird. So have fun reading this joy ride of information down below. Birth of the Blackbird:- SR-71 Blackbird was originally designed and developed by the Lockheed Martin back in the ’60s. The first official flight taken off by this aircraft was…
On 26th November 2018, the InSight Lander from NASA successfully landed on the Red Planet, Mars after completing its seven months long journey from earth to Mars which was almost 300 million miles. The name InSight is the abbreviation for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Tom Hoffman at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is also the InSight project manager said to media, “we hit the Martian atmosphere at 124300 mph and the whole time for this sequence which InSight Lander took for touchdown on the surface of Mars was about 6 and a half minutes. During…