A Kuwait Airways plane took a left turn instead of right while taking off on Monday and headed to the no-fly zone in Delhi.
A naval Islander aircraft force-landed at a paddy field at Piravom near Kochi on Friday while on a routine sortie. However, all the five people on board are safe.
Heavy winds swept the valley throughout the day and did not allow the operation of flights.
The decision will benefit the under construction airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore and the one already built in Kochi with majority private participation.
The pilot sought permission from the air traffic control in Kolkata for making an emergency landing. The aircraft touched down at 1.30 pm at the airport as the fire brigade and ambulances were standing by.
Two students of Bishop Cotton Boys School developed Ebender, which is scheduled for launch on December 12.
The Dhaka to Kathmandu US-Bangla Airlines flight, with 67 passengers and four crew members on board, caught fire after it careened off the runway and ploughed into a football ground near the Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday.
The airport sees 950-960 aircraft movements daily, and Saturday saw an additional 37 flights to Udaipur as celebrities, filmstars and politicians made a dash to the city for pre-wedding celebrations.
The US is set for a geographically limited 5G rollout this Christmas, after a bumper $81 billion spectrum auction earlier this year. Just as the rollout date nears, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sounded alarm bells over potentially fatal consequences of 5G interference on aircraft. Similar consequences could apply in India, where 5G spectrum auction is scheduled in January 2022, with the rollout beginning later next year (though reports suggest impending delays).
'The simultaneous fire from so many guns rained down on the enemy and pulverised them, a sight I can never forget till my last breath.'
Five people were killed when a private chopper crashed in Thane rural area near Mumbai on Sunday after it came in contact with high tension wires.
The American Boeing 757, flying to Male from Karachi, was forced to land in Mumbai on Monday after it was found violating Indian air space.
After having slashed fares when his competitors increased them, low-cost carrier Air Deccan's chief G R Gopinath on Monday said the airline would increase the number of flights instead of fares to meet the passenger demand.
Contact could not be established with the Indian Air Force flight IFC 31 after it left Male ATC for Mauritius airspace on Saturday, the Airports Authority of India said in a statement.
All sections of employees of the Airports Authority of India, barring air traffic controllers, would go on a mass casual leave across the country on September 27 to protest the government move to restructure Delhi and Mumbai airports.\n\n\n\n
While the army and air force allow permanent commission for women, the Navy has limited women officers only to short service commission of 14 years.
The first women pilots in the fighter stream of IAF will be selected from the current batch at Air Force Academy.
Tabletop runways are constructed on hilly or elevated terrains. Also, there could be low lying areas adjacent to such runways and there could be gorges at the end of such runways. Airports Authority of India (AAI) Chairman Arvind Singh told PTI that tabletop runways are there at four airports operated by it.
Serving pilots question the Kozhikode plane crash report findings.
An Air India Dreamliner, flying non-stop from Sydney to Delhi, with 215 people on board, on Wednesday landed in Kuala Lumpur under emergency conditions after its cockpit panels suffered a software malfunction.
The Union Cabinet is likely to consider the modalities of restructuring the airports at Delhi and Mumbai and give its nod to the process of airport privatisation, when it meets in New Delhi next week, informed sources said on Wednesday.
The IAF has cleared the 11-member crew. The ATC in Mumbai had ordered the aircraft to land at Sahar airport as it did not have 'air defence clearance'.
The plane, which was travelling from Karachi to Male, did not have necessary clearance.
154 people on board an IndiGo aircraft had a narrow escape on Wednesday following a problem in its landing gear that caused thick smoke to emanate after touching down at the airport in New Delhi, leaving some passengers with minor injuries during evacuation.
A Coast Guard Dornier surveillance aircraft with three crew members on board went missing on Monday night off the coast of Chennai.
An Indigo flight from Bagdogra came close to a descending Air India plane over Bagdogra in West Bengal on Friday afternoon, raising the spectre of a collision and giving scare to about 250 passengers on board the two aircraft.
An IndiGo flight from Dubai to Kozhikode made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday morning following alleged unruly behaviour of a passenger.
Indonesia-based Lion Air Flight JT610, a three-month old 737 MAX 8, took off from capital Jakarta at 6.20 am local time on Monday and lost contact 13 minutes later when it was at an altitude of about 3,000 feet.
The story behind the horrific crash of the Lufthansa's Germanwings airbus that claimed the lives of 150 people onboard could take some more time to unravel.
In the next two years, permanent terminal building and ATC tower will be built on 5,000 sq metre land
In a first, a Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft successfully landed on the Yamuna Expressway.
The multinational search for the missing AirAsia flight entered the third day on Tuesday after a futile day-long scanning of the JavaSea where the Airbus 320-200 is believed to have gone down with 162 passengers and crew.
Bhubaneswar airport too bracing itself for emergency and contingency plans have been drawn up.
Her flight had to be rescheduled due to the air strike in France.
High winds and low visibility caused pilots to abort a first attempt at landing.
The objects were promotional balloons filled with gas, launched by the event management company to advertise its client.
'We airlifted army personnel wearing lungis to generally unused landing grounds.' 'We were told to keep quiet about what we did or saw.'
In a heart-warming gesture, the Indian Air Force made an 11-year-old boy suffering from Thalassemia the "youngest honorary pilot" for its Sulur-based squadron in Coimbatore, fulfilling his wish.
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