Author: Crew Daily
On October 17th, 2018, the first lady of USA Melania Trump’s aircraft was forced to make a return back to the Joint Andrews Air Force Base after the smoke and burning smells were detected in her aircraft. She was travelling in a Boeing C-32A. Melania Trump was travelling on the aircraft headed towards Philadelphia where she was to visit the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. However, her travel plans were cut short only after 10 minutes of take off. Some of the press members on board that plane have reported that a thin hazy line of smoke along with the smell…
In the latest news, a Hawk Plane of the Saudi Royal Air Force crashed during a training mission which left all of its crew members dead. The mission was carried out n the northwest region of Saudi Arabia. The news has been confirmed by the Ministry of Defense. Officials have already opened up an investigation procedure for the cause of the crash of this British manufactured Hawk as per stated by the Saudi State news agency SPA. The statement roughly translates into, “Our aircraft crashed during a training flight in the North West region and the crew has been martyred.”…
On October 16th, 2018 one of the Ukrainian Air Force’s Su-27 was flying for a training mission near the Ulaniv, Ukraine and crashed. The news of this crash has been announced officially by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to a local newspaper source and a news aggregator in the Russian language, a Ukrainian and an American pilot have died in this accident. Still, this news has not been cofnie3d by the US Air Force in Europe. This is what was written on the USAFE’s website about the incident. “We are aware of a Ukrainian Su-27UB…
On the night nights from 11th to 12th October, 32018 Flydubai started its daily operations from Helsinki to Dubai. Flydubai has become the first international filet to start its year around operations directly from Dubai Airport to Helsinki Airport in the world. Helsinki Airport is the best airport in Northern Europe with its 145 routes all across the globe. This is the major step for the airport as it is looking forward to serving about 30 million passengers a year. The investment of this operation is going to be almost 1 billion Euros. Joni Sundelin; SVP and Helsinki Airport and…
A Private aircraft accidentally made its landing on the Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium. Two pilots who were operating this private aircraft were almost certain, that they had made their landing on the Zwartberg airport, which is a small airport, located about 20 kilometers in the South of Kleine Brogel. This private aircraft that took off from Goetsenhoven, made its landing on the air base without any proper clearance. The aircraft, as well as the people on board this aircraft, were surrounded by security personnel immediately. There were two passengers on board other than crew members. Police Officer also…
Hurricane Leslie on October 13th, 2018 made its way to the Iberic Peninsula that caused heavy disruption of the air traffic at the Porto Airport. The storm resulted in six aircraft of the Ryanair to be diverted towards Malaga airport. Due to this about 800 passengers and crew members were left stranded for the night at the airport. Sunday mornings, police officers came to the airport to calm down the 800 passengers who were stranded to spend a night on the airport without information for about 5 to 6 hours. One of the passengers told the Portuguese newspaper in a…
Singapore Airlines as officially announced the world’s longest flight from Singapore to New York. This first longest ever commercial flight was launched for the first time on October 11th from Singapore to New York. The plane took flight from Changi International Airport and arrived in Newark Liberty International Airport a day later. The total duration of the flight was about 17 hours and 52 minutes. The route is being operated by the all-new Airbus A350-900ULR (ultra long range) aircraft. The service will be initially served thrice a week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. All flights will depart from Singapore. Other…
Hamburg Airport is now officially ready to receive the Airbus A380. All the necessary works to house the new aircraft have been completed and with this Hamburg is the world’s only airport to house this largest passenger carrier in the world. According to officials, on October 29th, 2018, Emirates airline is going to be the only airline in the world to fly off A380 for scheduled services from the Hamburg Airport. With the deployment of this double Decker aircraft, the airline will see a capacity increase of about 22 percent on any route. Emirates airline with this large aircraft is…
On October 11th, 2018; a Belgian Air Force’s F-16 aircraft suddenly caught fire during the routine maintenance. The incident happened at the Florennes Air Base. As the result of the fire, the aircraft was completely destroyed. Belgian Air Force also told media that due to the fire another F-16 suffered from collateral damage. According to the official report of the incident, “A technician who was working on the maintenance of the now destroyed F-16 suddenly and accidentally activated the aircraft’s 6 Barrels 20mm Vulcan M61A-1 Cannon. The cannon which was loaded with ammo shot some bullets at the nearby F-16AM.…
An Air India Express Boeing aircraft; 737-9800 on it take off on October 12th hits the runway approach lights and airport perimeter wall. The aircraft was headed from Tiruchirapalli, India to Dubai when the accident happened. The news has been confirmed by the airline officials. The pilot in command of the said plane; Captain D. Ganesh Babu told media that despite the incident all the systems of the plane were functioning properly but the plane was ordered to divert back to Mumbai. After the flightradar24- data was made available to pilot, he still had no clue about the fact at…