A US Air Force E-8C Joint STARS battle management plane has made its maiden flight over eastern Ukraine for a reconnaissance mission to gather information about the situation on the ground, an American official has revealed. Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, US European Command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Russ Wolfkiel explained …
Read More »Details of incident between Russian flight & NATO spy plane revealed
In a statement on Saturday, Russia’s federal air transport regulator, Rosaviatsia, shed more light on an incident that unfolded above the international waters of the Black Sea the day before. The regulator claimed that a NATO reconnaissance plane was flying dangerously close to a Moscow-bound civil aircraft with over 140 …
Read More »US spy plane ‘forced flight from Israel to change course’
The American reconnaissance aircraft was “chaotically” crossing civilian aviation routes in the area on Friday and ended up approaching an Airbus jet at a dangerously close distance, according to the agency. At some point, “there were less than 20 meters between the two planes in the vertical line,” he insisted. Air …
Read More »Military police raid plane to arrest couple trying to flee quarantine
The dramatic incident unfolded at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on board a flight that was set to depart for Spain at ‘around 6.00pm’ Sunday, the Netherlands armed forces confirmed in a statement. The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee at Schiphol has arrested a couple this evening who had fled from a quarantine hotel… …
Read More »WATCH: Passengers stuck on plane from SA as ‘super-mutant’ Covid panic spreads
The two flights touched down in Schiphol Airport on Friday morning, but passengers face a long wait to disembark, NOS reported. All 600 passengers will be given PCR tests and will have to remain on the plane or elsewhere in the airport until their results come back, with the final …
Read More »China bound Swiss foreign minister’s plane lands in Moscow after technical issues
Ignazio Cassis, who is also the country’s Vice President, was heading to the province of Zhejiang to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Writing on Twitter, the Swiss Foreign Ministry revealed that government plane carrying Cassis would be checked in order to determine whether onward journey to China is possible. …
Read More »US entrepreneur who flew to space on Bezos’ rocket dies in plane crash
A small private plane carrying de Vries and another man, 54-year-old Thomas Fischer, crashed down in Hampton Township, New Jersey near the border with New York on Thursday, killing both, the New Jersey state police told media outlets. Bezos’ company Blue Origin also noted the entrepreneur’s passing, saying it was …
Read More »Cargo plane, with eight on board, crashes in Siberia — reports
“At 2.50pm Moscow time, the An-12 aircraft, flying between Yakutsk and Irkutsk, disappeared from the radar,” a source told RIA Novosti. According to TASS, officials believe that the plane belongs to Belarusian airline ‘Grodno’ and was operating a cargo flight. “According to preliminary reports, the crash site has been found …
Read More »21 passengers & crew miraculously survive after plane crashes and bursts into flames near Houston, Texas (VIDEOS)
The crash occurred in Waller County, near the town of Katy, and close to the Houston Executive Airport, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Sheriff Troy Guidry confirmed to local media that all 21 passengers and crew had made it out safely, though one person had been hospitalized …
Read More »Plane crashes into homes near Santee, California, causing inferno and killing at least 2 (VIDEOS)
The plane crashed down onto a residential street in Santee, a suburban area of San Diego County, early on Monday afternoon. Footage from the scene suggests that at least two buildings were seriously damaged in the crash, which occurred just blocks from a high school. All the school’s students were …
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