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- India
With 1,700 aircraft pending orders, India needs 30,000 pilots: Naidu
Visakhapatnam: India will need an additional 30,000 pilots once the pending orders for 1,700 aircraft from the Indian carriers are delivered, Union Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu said on Saturday.…
- Middle East
Turkey suspends C-130 flights after crash kills 20
Ankara: Turkey has temporarily grounded its C-130 military cargo planes as a precaution, the Defence Ministry announced Thursday, November 13, following a crash in Georgia that claimed the lives of all 20…
- India
Ministry clarified pilot not being blamed for AI plane crash: Centre to SC
New Delhi: The Air India pilot has not been blamed in the AAIB’s preliminary report into the June 12 plane crash that claimed 260 lives, the Centre told the Supreme Court on…
- Middle East
Turkish military plane with 20 on board crashes in Georgia
Ankara: A Turkish military cargo plane with 20 people on board crashed in Georgia near the border with Azerbaijan on Tuesday, Turkish and Georgian authorities said, but they gave no immediate word…
- Middle East
Israel likely to supply Rs 8,000 cr refuelling aircraft fleet to Indian Air Force
New Delhi: Indian Air Force (IAF) is close to finalising a deal worth about Rs 8,000 crore with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to boost its mid-air refuelling capacity, according to a report…
- India
Aircraft takes off from Kanpur for 1st cloud-seeding trial in Delhi
New Delhi: The aircraft to be used for the first cloud-seeding trial in the national capital took off from Kanpur for Delhi, and is expected to conduct the exercise in northwest Delhi’s…
- India
IndiGo resumes Kolkata-Guangzhou direct flights
New Delhi: IndiGo on Monday said it has restarted flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou, marking the resumption of direct air services between India and China after a gap of more than five…
- India
Air India’s Newark-bound plane returns to Mumbai following technical issue
New Delhi: A Newark-bound Air India flight, operated with a Boeing 777 aircraft, returned to Mumbai on Wednesday morning due to a technical issue. The Boeing 777 plane, which took off at…
- World
No one hurt as United Airlines plane clips tail of another aircraft in Chicago
Chicago: A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday’s incident and the 113…
- India
IndiGo to purchase 30 more wide-body A350 planes
New Delhi: IndiGo on Friday signed a contract with Airbus to buy an additional 30 A350-900 aircraft, taking the total firm orders for the wide-body planes to 60. The country’s largest airline,…
- India
RAT deployment was ‘neither due to system fault nor pilot action’: Air India
Mumbai: Air India on Friday said conclusions from its preliminary investigations show that the deployment of Ram Air Turbine (RAT) in its Dreamliner aircraft on October 4 was “neither due to a…
- India
IndiGo’s Mumbai-Delhi flight gets bomb threat
New Delhi: An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to the national capital received a bomb threat on Tuesday morning, according to a source. The flight 6E 762 had around 200 people on board…
- Technology
IndiGo, Air India to start new flights
New Delhi: IndiGo and Air India on Tuesday announced new flight services. IndiGo will start flight connecting Kolkata (West Bengal) and Purnea (Bihar) from September 15, while Air India will commence services…
- Technology
SpiceJet shares drop nearly 3 pc after June quarter earnings
New Delhi: Shares of SpiceJet declined nearly 3 per cent on Monday after the company reported a net loss of Rs 238 crore for the June quarter, saying expenses related to grounded…
- Chennai
Fire erupts on cargo flight engine
Chennai: Fire erupted in one of the engines of an inbound international cargo flight here on Tuesday, but none was injured as the blaze was put down after the aircraft landed here,…
