'I would put my hand in the ground and have a little listen to what the mountain was doing.' 'Actually, it was still collapsing.' 'And there was a very real possibility that at some stage, without warning, the collapse could continue -- and continue across us, the people who were doing the rescue and also across to the men on the other side, who were being rescued.'
The battery of the locator beacon of the flight data recorder of the doomed Malaysian plane MH370 had expired over a year before it mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean, an interim report said on Sunday but did not indicate any unusual behaviour by the crew.
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
An Indian pilot working for Qatar Airwys has died mid-flight due to a massive heart attack after the plane took off from Manila, even as the aircraft landed safely at Kuala Lumpur.Ajay Kukreja, 43, who has been working with the airline for five years, was flying QR-645 with around 260 passengers on board on Wednesday when the tragedy struck.
Air-India and Indian Airlines are to submit another aircraft acquisition proposal for long haul jets and replacement of wide-bodied planes, respectively.
Unplanned, last-minute pricing is hurting the aviation sector, as is evident from the balance sheets of Indian carriers
Indian Airlines' plan to buy 43 aircraft is likely to get the nod of the Union Cabinet soon, Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad said on Tuesday.
The commercial flight operations of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Akasa Air will be launched in July instead of June. "As we get closer to the airline launch date, we can now confirm refined estimates on our timelines. "We expect our first aircraft delivery by early June 2022, with the intention to start commercial operations in July 2022," Vinay Dube, CEO, Akasa Air, told PTI.
A Yemeni jet with over 150 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean, off the island nation of Comoros, officials said on Tuesday.Yemenia Flight 626 was on its way to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital Sanaa. According to officials from the national airline Yemenia, the plane crashed approximately an hour before reaching its destination. There was no news about the fate of the 154 people on board.
Indian Airlines' plans to add more planes to its existing fleet may not be delayed, even though the civil aviation ministry has sought a review of their plans, as the fresh proposal would be taken straight to the Public Investment Board the moment it
Air-India and Indian Airlines will continue to take aircraft through the leasing route till its fleet acquisition comes through and have decided to take nine more planes by December.
Satisfied that the CBI was making all efforts to probe the mid-1980s contract to buy 31 Airbus-A320 planes for the Indian Airlines, the Delhi High Court on Monday disposed of a petition seeking investigation into the deal worth Rs 2,400 crore.
The passengers of the flight AF025 alleged that while they had to remain at the airport, people with American passports were given transit visas, provided accommodation and taken care of.
There is increasing friction between the IAF's military requirements, and the AAI's need to provide infrastructure to many more airlines.
2 other terrorists who were killed in the encounter include Divisional Commander Muhammad Bhai, a non-local Waseem, a resident of Drubgam, Pulwama.
"We were shown 25 bodies that were badly burnt. Now it it expected that we will be shown more bodies on Friday or Saturday. The rules here (in Nepal) are different due to which the process of handing over the bodies will take time," Abhinash Kushwaha, brother of one of the deceased Abhihesk Kushwaha, told PTI over phone from Nepal.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended the licences of 92 pilots in 2022 for violating safety norms, which was more than double the 2021 figure. The number of scheduled flights (domestic and international) in India increased by 32.74 per cent to 1.3 million in 2022, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. A DGCA official stated that the minimum period of licence suspension in 2022 was one month and the maximum was three years.
The co-pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines plane made a desperate call from his mobile phone moments before the jet went off the radar with 239 people on board under mysterious circumstances on March 8.
Both Jet Airways and Go First have met with a similar fate of landing up in insolvency, albeit for different reasons. Whether Go First will be able to avoid the sharp erosion in value like in the case of Jet, experts say, will depend on how quickly it is able to restart operations and retain its slots at airports. Go First, owned by the Wadia group, filed for voluntary corporate insolvency resolution on May 2 due to inadequate capacity utilisation that led to a cash crunch.
India said it is in touch with its High Commission in Nairobi following the crash.
According to the cable, Sattar reacted positively to the idea of involving Kashmiris.
IndiGo which has close to 40 per cent market share, at present has 129 aircraft and operates 883 daily flights to 44 destinations. It also has around 400 aircraft on order.
In the season of aviation action, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed Akasa Air has secured the crucial no-objection certificate (NoC) from the civil aviation ministry. It expects to start operations next summer. The airline will now have to apply for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation for operations permit. Aviation sector has been in the limelight with the Tata Group winning the Air India bid last week.
Jet is the largest player in the Mumbai airport, with over 110 domestic slots and 30 international slots from the city.
Currently, Vistara has more than 22 planes and operates around 850 flights every week.
Company has received orders for 20-25 GA8s from China and hopes to deliver at least two planes before the year-end.
By 2023, Vistara's hangars will house a total of 70 aircraft, up from the current 42.
As per plans, the Indian Air Force may use its planes to fly out Indian nationals stranded in Iraq to safer places nearby such as Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates from where commercial airliners would ferry them back to India.
Given all the risks in the world today, including the political instability, economic uncertainty, public health emergence and terrorism, there is not much buffer to absorb a significant change for the worse in the operating environment
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday said it was now "highly unlikely" that any debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will be found on the ocean surface, as he announced a more intensive underwater search
IndiGo's ascent is not without its risks, however.
The Mumbai police have arrested a male passenger after a crew member of a Delhi-bound flight from Mumbai heard him talking about 'hijacking' on phone, an official said on Friday.
The Intelligence Bureau on Sunday issued an alert about a possible hijack attempt on the Air India flight going to Kabul in Afghanistan.
The airline would offer access to in-flight connectivity only on Dreamliners and Airbus 321 aircraft on international routes.
Sanjiv Kapoor questions the rival's change in strategy and claims of full load.
The 16-hour flight will be the first direct one from India to the US west coast.
The pilot of the flight that crashed in Lagos, killing all 153 people on board including an Indian co-pilot and over 40 others on the ground, reported to the control tower that both of its engines had failed before it went down, the Nigeria's civil aviation chief said.
'It will be a long time before we will see the likes of Vajpayee again.'
