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.
No flights could take off or land for around two hours since 0630 IST
The deadline for the commercial launch of the Navi Mumbai airport is set at 2021-end
The weather department has forecast widespread snowfall or rains over the next two days also.
no flight will depart or arrive at the Kolkata airport between 9.30 pm of May 3 and 6 pm of May 4
Heavy winds swept the valley throughout the day and did not allow the operation of flights.
Fares to key routes such as Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad may shoot up 80 per cent
Her flight had to be rescheduled due to the air strike in France.
Bhubaneswar airport too bracing itself for emergency and contingency plans have been drawn up.
AI Boeing skids on Mumbai runway, all apssengers safe
A three-member technical team of the FAA carried out the second round of audit of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to check whether corrective steps have been taken to resolve 33 deficiencies the US agency had highlighted during the first round in September.
Two students of Bishop Cotton Boys School developed Ebender, which is scheduled for launch on December 12.
In the last few days, temperatures have been recorded several notches below normal in Delhi, with cold wave conditions persisting across north India.\n\n
Prices of tickets booked three days prior have soared 70% over last summer's fares
The decision will benefit the under construction airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore and the one already built in Kochi with majority private participation.
The civil aviation ministry would 'shortly' come out with a comprehensive policy framework for sharing of unused bilateral air-traffic rights between the public sector and private carriers, for operating to these international destinations.
North India reeled under intense cold wave on Friday claiming a woman's life in Kanpur and taking the countrywide toll to 34.
'If businesses are focused on de-leveraging, they can hardly be investing. This is the price extracted by investment mistakes during UPA rule, and should have been foreseen. 'But Modi-I must share the blame, for muted reform of the financial sector, partisan policy in telecom, the harm done to exports by an over-priced rupee, and so on,' says T N Ninan.
The announcement of 'open sky' policy for designated airlines of ten ASEAN nations to fly unhindered into the Indian cities is likely to hit the earnings of Air-India and Indian Airlines, official sources said in New Delhi on Friday.
The objects were promotional balloons filled with gas, launched by the event management company to advertise its client.
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.
Moments before Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimated Bryant's luxury passenger helicopter hit the ground at a speed of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) per minute.
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
The dense fog reduced Runway Visibility Range in airports to 200 metres
According to officials, Punjab, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam and Telangana wanted the lockdown to be continued, some of them wanted the powers to decide the zoning of districts -- green, orange and red -- as per the COVID-19 situation.
Virgin Atlantic, which now operates three flights a week to London, plans to launch daily services from New Delhi and Mumbai, and start direct flights from Hyderabad and Bangalore, its top official said in New Delhi.
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.
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